Butler Ames (1871–1954) was U.S. Representative from MassachusettsThe Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Most of its population of 6.4 million live in the Boston metropolitan area. The eastern half of this relatively small state is mostly urban and suburban. The west is primarily rural, also with most of its population in urban enclaves. Massachusetts is the most populous of the six New England states and ranks third in overall population density among the 50 states. The first Europeans ...Massachusetts.

He was the son of Adelbert AmesAdelbert Ames (October 31 1835 – April 12 1933) was a Union general in the American Civil War, a Mississippi politician, and a general in the Spanish-American War. He was the last general officer of the American Civil War to die, passing away at age 97 in 1933.Adelbert Ames and grandson of Benjamin Franklin ButlerBenjamin Franklin Butler (November 5 1818 – January 11, 1893) was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served as its governor. During the American Civil War, his administration of occupied New Orleans, his policies ...Benjamin Franklin Butler, both whom were Union ArmyThe Union Army was the army that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army or the Northern Army. It consisted of the small United States Army (the Regular Army), augmented by massive numbers of units supplied by the Northern ...Union Army generals, he was born in Lowell, MassachusettsLowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 105,167. It is the fourth largest city in the state. It and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County. Founded as a planned manufacturing center for textiles along the Merrimack River northwest of Boston, it was a thriving industrial center during the 19th century, attracting many immigrants and migrant workers to its mills. With the decline of its manufacturing ...Lowell, Massachusetts, August 22, 1871. Ames attended the public schools and Phillips Exeter AcademyA traditional, though informal, association existed between Exeter and Harvard University from the early 19th Century. This traditional association declined throughout the 20th Century, and students now matriculate to a wide range of colleges and universities. Eighty-one percent of the students board, living in on-campus dormitories or houses. The remaining nineteen percent of the student body is composed of day students ...Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H. and graduated from the United States Military AcademyThe United States Military Academy, also known as West Point, or simply USMA (or Army, for NCAA purposes), is a United States Army post and service academy. West Point was first a military post that was for a while under the command of Benedict Arnold Spies of the American Revolution - University of Michigan. Established ...United States Military Academy at West Point in 1894. He resigned from the United States Army after appointment as second lieutenant to the Eleventh Regiment, United States Infantry; took a postgraduate course at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis in theoretical, applied, and interdisciplinary scientific and technological research. MIT is one of two private land-grant universities as well as a sea-grant and space-grant university. MIT was founded by William Barton Rogers in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the ...Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was graduated in 1896 as a mechanical and electrical engineer.

Ames engaged in manufacturing; served as a member of the common council of Lowell in 1896; enlisted during the Spanish-American WarThe Spanish–American War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Spain and the United States of America that took place from April to August 1898. The war began due to American demands that Spain peacefully resolve the Cuban fight for independence, though strong expansionist sentiment in the United States may have also motivated the government to target Spain's other remaining overseas territories: Puerto ...Spanish-American War and was commissioned lieutenant and adjutant of the Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry; appointed acting engineer officer of the Second Army Corps under General Graham, in addition to his duties as adjutant. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in August 1898; served as civil administrator of the Arecibo district of Puerto RicoThe Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (, IPA ), also Porto Rico (archaic) and more commonly Puerto Rico, is a self governing unincorporated territory of the United States with Government of Puerto Rico - Puerto RicoCommonwealth status located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin ...Puerto Rico until November 1898.

Ames became a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives 1897-1899; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1913); was not a candidate for renomination in 1912; resumed manufacturing pursuits; president of United States Cartridge Co., and treasurer of Heinze Electrical Co. of Lowell; at time of death was treasurer and a director of Wamesit Power Co. of Lowell, Mass.; director of Union Land and Grazing Co., Colorado Springs, Colo., and vice president and a director of Ames Textile Corp., Lowell, Mass.; died in Tewksbury, Mass., November 6, 1954; interment in Hildreth Family Cemetery, Lowell, Mass.