Editing Archibald Butt (section)

{{Short description|American journalist and military officer (1865–1912)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name        = Archibald Butt
| image       = Archibald Willingham Butt.jpg
| caption     = Butt in 1909
| birth_name  = Archibald Willingham DeGraffenreid Clarendon Butt
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1865|09|26}}
| birth_place = [[Augusta, Georgia]], U.S.
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1912|4|15|1865|9|26}}
| death_place = [[North Atlantic Ocean]]
| yearsactive =
| occupation  = Journalist, soldier, presidential aide
| education     = [[Sewanee: The University of the South]]
}}

'''Archibald Willingham DeGraffenreid Clarendon Butt'''<ref>Smith, p. 69.</ref> (September 26, 1865&nbsp;– April 15, 1912) was an American Army officer and aide to presidents [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and [[William Howard Taft]]. After a few years as a newspaper reporter, he served two years as the First Secretary of the American embassy in Mexico. He was commissioned in the [[United States Volunteers]] in 1898 and served in the [[Quartermaster Corps (United States Army)|Quartermaster Corps]] during the [[Spanish–American War]].  After brief postings in Washington, D.C., and [[Cuba]], he was appointed military aide to Republican presidents [[Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt|Roosevelt]] and [[Presidency of William Howard Taft|Taft]].  He was a highly influential advisor on a wide range of topics to both men, and his writings are a major source of historical information on the presidencies. He died in the [[sinking of the Titanic|sinking]] of the British liner ''[[Titanic]]'' in 1912.