Butler Gilbert Noble (September 27, 1815 – October 25, 1890) was the seventh

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under Governor Alexander Randall.

Biography

He was born in

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. He moved to

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in 1850. He soon joined the Republican Party. He served as a member of the

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, from

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, in 1858, and was elected lieutenant governor at the end of the next year, a position in which he served from 1860 until 1862. In 1864, he moved to New York City, where he held jobs first as a weigher in the

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, then as a harbor master, then as chief clerk in the seizure room. He died in 1890, from a stroke, in

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.'Recent Deaths-Butler Gilbert Noble,' Boston Evening Transcript, October 27, 1890, pg. 4

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* * 1815 births 1890 deaths Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly Lieutenant governors of Wisconsin People from Whitewater, Wisconsin 19th-century members of the Wisconsin Legislature {{Wisconsin-WIAssembly-Republican-1810s-stub