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Roosevelt</a>. Bond trader Gerald MacGuire spoke on behalf of financiers <a href="/people/765/000134363/">Grayson Murphy</a>, Robert Sterling Clark, and six other men. He attempted to lure Butler into their traitorous scheme: march 500,000 veterans on the capitol and forcibly seize FDR. Butler demurred and revealed the story at public Congressional hearings in 1934. His story was corroborated by Veterans of Foreign Wars commander <a href="/people/226/000353164/">James E. Van Zandt</a>, who testified that he also had been approached to lead the 500,000-man march on Washington.<p><b>Father:</b> Thomas Stalker Butler (Congressman, Pennsylvania 1897-1928)<br><b>Mother:</b> Maud Mary Darlington<br><b>Wife:</b> Ethel Conway Peters (m. 30-Jun-1905)<br><b>Daughter:</b> Ethel Peters Butler<br><b>Son:</b> Smedley Darlington Butler, Jr.<br><b>Son:</b> Thomas Richard Butler<br><p> High School: <a href="/edu/028/000209398/">Haverford School, Haverford, PA (1898)</a><br><p> <u>Philadelphia Director of Public Safety</u> (1924-26)<br> <u>American League Against War and Fascism</u> spokesman (1935-37)<br> <a href="/org/400/000052244/">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a> <br> <a href="/honors/056/000043924/">Congressional Medal of Honor</a> (Dec-1915), for actions in Veracruz, Mexico (22-Apr-1914)<br> <a href="/honors/056/000043924/">Congressional Medal of Honor</a> (1917), for actions in Haiti (17-Nov-1915)<br> <a href="/honors/040/000048893/">Army Distinguished Service Medal</a> 9-Jul-1918<br> <a href="/honors/068/000128681/">Navy Distinguished Service Medal</a> <br> <a href="/event/226/000118869/">Shot: Battle</a> Battle of Tientsin (13-Jul-1900), thigh wound<br> <a href="/event/226/000118869/">Shot: Battle</a> San Tan Pating, chest wound<br> <a href="/event/860/000080620/">Nervous Breakdown</a> (1908)<br> <a href="/group/505/000213863/">HUAC Hearings</a> (Nov-1934)<br><p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>War is a Racket</i> (<tt>1935</tt>, nonfiction)<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=55407"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=55407">Smedley Butler</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=55407" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>