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Benjamin Franklin Butler in the American Civil War he commanded Fort Monroe, Va., He led the Union army in Virginia. In the U.S. House of Representatives (1867, 1877), he was a Radical Republican prominent in the impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson. He switched parties in 1878 to support the Greenback movement and later served as governor of Massachusetts (1882).