John S. Buttles
American judge
John S. Buttles (January 20, 1877 – May 18, 1949) was an American attorney and judge. He served as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 1937 to 1949.
Early life
John Stephen Buttles was born in Troy, New York on January 20, 1877, the son of Hiram S. and Sybil G. (Selleck) Buttles. He was raised in Brandon, Vermont, and graduated from Brandon High School in 1893. He received a Ph.B. degree from the University of Vermont in 1897, and was a member of Kappa Sigma and Phi Beta Kappa. He taught school in Rutland, Massachusetts, and then began attendance at New York Law School, from which he received an LL.B. degree in 1900. Buttles was admitted to the bar, and worked as an attorney for the New York Life Insurance Company in New York City, Dubuque, Iowa, and Chicago until returning to Vermont in 1905.
Continued career
Buttles settled first in Rutland, and later in Brandon, and became a partner in the law practice of Ebenezer J. Ormsbee. A Republican, he served in several local offices, including assistant judge of Rutland's city court, and Brandon's town meeting moderator and grand juror (city court prosecutor). In 1916, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for State's Attorney of Rutland County.
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