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==Biography==

==Biography==

Butler was born in [[rural]] Gibsland in Bienville Parish, the second son of Lou P. and Hattie Butler. The Butlers relocated to Shreveport while Willis was a young boy. He obtained his medical degree from [[Vanderbilt University]] in [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]], and then pursued postgraduate studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]] and [[Cornell University]] in Ithaca, [[New York]]. As a new [[M.D.]], he was employed as a pathologist at Bellevue Hospital in New York, the oldest public hospital in the United States. There he conducted the first of his many autopsies and studied how to treat poisons.<ref name=ebrock/> His first wife, Anne Perry "Annie" Dodd (1890-1963),<ref name=adbutler>{{cite web|url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60525&h=120010277&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=EOs364&_phstart=successSource|title=Ann Butler|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=August 28, 2019}}</ref> a native of Trenton in Gibson County in western Tennessee, was the younger sister of Monroe Elmon Dodd, Sr. (1878-1952), the long-time pastor of First [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church of Shreveport and the founder of the former Dodd College for Girls, of which [[Governor]] [[Jimmie Davis]] spent a year on the Dodd faculty. The couple had a daughter, Lucille, and a son, Willis, Jr., a 1951 graduate of [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]], who practices family medicine in Haleiwa, [[Hawaii]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vitals.com/doctors/Dr_Willis_Butler.html|title=Dr. Willis P. Butler, Jr.|publisher=Vitals.com|accessdate=August 28, 2019}}</ref>  

Butler was born in [[rural]] Gibsland in Bienville Parish, the second son of Lou P. and Hattie Butler. The Butlers relocated to Shreveport while Willis was a young boy. He obtained his medical degree from [[Vanderbilt University]] in [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]], and then pursued postgraduate studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]] and [[Cornell University]] in Ithaca, [[New York]]. As a new [[M.D.]], he was employed as a pathologist at Bellevue Hospital in New York, the oldest public hospital in the United States. There he conducted the first of his many autopsies and studied how to treat poisons.<ref name=ebrock/> His first wife, Anne Perry "Annie" Dodd (1890-1963),<ref name=adbutler>{{cite web|url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60525&h=120010277&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=EOs364&_phstart=successSource|title=Ann Butler|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=August 28, 2019}}</ref> a native of Trenton in Gibson County in western Tennessee, was the younger sister of Monroe Elmon Dodd, Sr. (1878-1952), the long-time pastor of First [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church of Shreveport and the founder of the former Dodd College for Girls, of which [[Governor]] [[Jimmie Davis]] spent a year on the Dodd faculty. The couple had a daughter, Lucille, and a son, Willis, Jr., a 1951 graduate of [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]], who practices family medicine in Haleiwa, [[Hawaii]], a census-designated place on the island of Oahu.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vitals.com/doctors/Dr_Willis_Butler.html|title=Dr. Willis P. Butler, Jr.|publisher=Vitals.com|accessdate=August 28, 2019}}</ref>  

After Annie's death, Butler remarried a few years later. He and his second wife, Ruth, continued to reside in house in the Broadmoor section of Shreveport, which he and Annie had built in the 1940s. In his last years, he and Ruth also maintained a residence at Hermitage in eastern Davidson County in metropolitan [[Nashville]], Tennessee.<ref name=ebrock/>

After Annie's death, Butler remarried a few years later. He and his second wife, Ruth, continued to reside in house in the Broadmoor section of Shreveport, which he and Annie had built in the 1940s. In his last years, he and Ruth also maintained a residence at Hermitage in eastern Davidson County in metropolitan [[Nashville]], Tennessee.<ref name=ebrock/>