Political career of Rab Butler: 1929–1941 Political career of Rab Butler: 1929–1941 Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), generally known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative politician. Butler was elected to Parliament for Saffron Walden in Essex at the 1929 General Election, and soon became a parliamentary assistant to Samuel Hoare, the leading Conservative politician associated with Indian policy. Butler attended the Second Round Table Conference and early in 1932 he visited India on Lord Lothian's Franchise Committee, which recommended an increase in the Indian franchise.
Keith Butler (Ontario politician) if any, were required to ensure "the wider participation of youth in society" He was defeated in the 1967 general election by the Liberal candidate, Edward R. Good and he retired from politics. Keith Butler (Ontario politician) Keith Elkington Butler (1920 - 1977) was a Canadian politician, who represented Waterloo North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1967 as a Progressive Conservative member. Butler served in the Canadian Army and lost a leg in the battle for the Falaise Gap. He served as Vice-President of the National Council of War Veterans. An insurance broker, by training, he