Editing Pierce Butler (judge) (section)

==Death and legacy==
On November 15, 1939, Butler went into a [[Washington, D.C.]], hospital for "a minor ailment" but died in the early morning hours of November 16, at the age of 73 while still on the Court. He was the last serving Supreme Court Justice appointed by President Harding. He is buried in [[Calvary Cemetery (St. Paul, Minnesota)|Calvary Cemetery]] in St. Paul.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.supremecourthistory.org/04_library/subs_volumes/04_c20_e.html |title=Christensen, George A. (1983) ''Here Lies the Supreme Court: Gravesites of the Justices'', Yearbook |access-date=2005-09-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050903032026/http://www.supremecourthistory.org/04_library/subs_volumes/04_c20_e.html |archive-date=September 3, 2005 }}. [[Supreme Court Historical Society]] at [[Internet Archive]].</ref><ref>Christensen, George A., ''Here Lies the Supreme Court: Revisited'', ''Journal of Supreme Court History'', Volume 33 Issue 1, pp. 17–41 (Feb 19, 2008), [[University of Alabama]].</ref>

The bulk of his and his family's collected papers are with the [[Minnesota Historical Society]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00007.pdf |title=Pierce Butler papers |first1=Kathryn A. |last1=Johnson |date=July 1991 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |access-date=July 24, 2012 |archive-date=June 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621140207/http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00007.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="FJC">{{cite web |url=http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetMan?jid=335 |publisher=Federal Judicial Center |title=Pierce Butler, Research collections |access-date=July 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925084910/http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetMan?jid=335 |archive-date=September 25, 2012 }}</ref> Other papers are collected elsewhere.<ref name="FJC"/>

Pierce Butler Route in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]], is named in honor of Butler's son, Pierce Butler Jr..<ref>{{cite book |last1=Empson |first1=Donald L. |title=The Street Where You Live A Guide to the Place Names of St. Paul |date=2006 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-0-8166-4729-3 |pages=215–216}}</ref><!-- Both versions of Empson's book state it is named after Pierce Butler Jr. Removed the citation to historical blog post by Jane McClure. -->

{{Gallery
|title=Burial of Pierce Butler
|width=180
|height=190
|align=center
|File:Funeral of Justice Pierce Butler.jpg|Funeral of Justice Pierce Butler, members of the Supreme Court, standing on the right, from left to right, retired Justice [[Willis Van Devanter]], Justices [[Felix Frankfurter]], [[Hugo Black]], [[Harlan Stone]]; Chief Justice [[Charles Evans Hughes]] and Thomas E. Waggaman, [[Marshal of the United States Supreme Court]], following high [[requiem mass]] at [[Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle (Washington, D.C.)|St. Matthew's Cathedral]]. Standing on the left, from left to right, Justices [[Owen J. Roberts]], [[Stanley Forman Reed]], [[William O. Douglas]], and retired Justice [[George Sutherland]].
|File:Obelisk Marking Family Plot Of Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler.png|The Butler family plot in St. Paul, Minnesota is marked by a large stone [[obelisk]] bearing only the name "BUTLER"; Pierce's stone and gravesite are in the foreground, obscured by tall grass.
|File:Gravesite of Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler.png|Gravesite of Pierce Butler.
}}