Robert Butler (diplomat)

Robert Butler (1897-1955) was the United States Ambassador to Australia (1946–48) and Cuba (1948–1951). He died of a heart attack on September 15, 1955. Butler was born in St. Louis, Missouri and his wife was Margaret Porter.

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During World War II he was active in shipbuilding. He was the president of Walter Butler Shipbuilding which built a number of cargo ships in Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin during the war.

According to a former aide, Butler had been the focus of an assassination plot during his term as Ambassador to Cuba.