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Charles Wilson Buttz (16 November 1837-20 July 1913) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-SC 2) from 7 November 1876 to 3 March 1877, succeeding Edmund W.M. Mackey and preceding Richard H. Cain.

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Charles Wilson Buttz was born in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and he wsa raised in White Township, New Jersey before becoming a lawyer in Belvidere. He moved to Norfolk, Virginia after serving in the 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment during the American Civil War, and he served as a solicitor from 1872 to 1880 before moving to Charleston, South Carolina in 1870. Buttz served in the US House of Representatives from 1876 to 1877, and he moved to Fargo, North Dakota a year later and served as a state's attorney from 1884 to 1886 and in the state house from 1903 to 1909. He died in 1913.

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