Name Edward Butler, Parents Edward Hubert Butler, Sr. | Died February 19, 1956 Education Yale University | |
Edward Hubert Butler II (June 19, 1883 – February 19, 1956) was an American publisher and editor of The Buffalo Evening News (1914–1956) and president of radio station WBEN (1930–1956) and WBEN-TV (1948–1956).
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Biography
He was born on June 19, 1883 to Edward Hubert Butler, Sr. in Buffalo, New York.
He attended Nichols and Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania and graduated from Yale University in 1907.
Butler married Kate M. Robinson (1885–1974) in 1909 and had two children, Edward Hubert Butler III (1915–1919) and Kate Robinson Wallis (m. 1921 Bruce E. Wallis).
Butler assumed the ownership of the Evening News and the family mansion upon the death of his father in 1914.
He died on February 19, 1956.
Legacy
His wife Kate was publisher from 1971 until her death in 1974.