Edward Hubert Butler Jr.
Edward Hubert Butler II was an American publisher and editor of The Buffalo Evening News and president of radio station WBEN and WBEN-TV.Biography
He was born on June 19, 1883 to Edward Hubert Butler Sr. in Buffalo, New York.
He attended Nichols and Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania and graduated from Yale University in 1907.
Butler married Kate M. Robinson in 1909 and had two children, Edward Hubert Butler III and Kate Robinson Wallis.
Butler assumed the ownership of the Evening News and the family mansion upon the death of his father in 1914.
He died on February 19, 1956.Legacy
His wife Kate was publisher from 1971 until her death in 1974.
