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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. (1918-2008), a 1951 graduate of [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]], who practiced 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>  

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. (1918-2008), a 1951 graduate of [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]], who came to [[Hawaii]] in 1952 and practiced family medicine in Haleiwa, 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>A founder of the Hawaii Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Dr. Butler, Jr., remained at the forefront of anti-war activities during that era and appeared especially informed on foreign policy. Later he questioned American involvement in Central American politics through the group, Physicians for Social Responsibility. He was also an opponent of the development of nuclear weapons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/2008/02/09/news/story13.html|title=Longtime doctor protested U. S. wars|publisher=''Honolulu Star Bulletin''|author=Mary Adamski|date=January 15, 2008|accessdate=August 29, 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/>