Robert Young Button

Robert Young Button
30th Attorney General of Virginia
In office
January 13, 1962 – January 17, 1970
GovernorAlbertis Harrison
Mills Godwin
Preceded byFrederick Thomas Gray
Succeeded byAndrew Pickens Miller
Member of the Virginia Senate
from the 27th district
In office
January 9, 1946 – January 10, 1962
Preceded byThomas B. Glascock
Succeeded byJohn Alexander
Personal details
Born
Robert Young Button

November 2, 1899
Culpeper, Virginia
DiedSeptember 1, 1977 (1977-10) (aged 77)
Culpeper, Virginia
SpouseKathleen Mary Antoinette Cheape
ChildrenRobert Young Button, Jr; Kathleen Button Ginn
Alma materUniversity of Virginia
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Robert Young Button (November 2, 1899 – September 1, 1977) served two terms as Attorney General of Virginia, as well as a fifteen years as Virginia State Senator. Button rose through the ranks of the Byrd Organization and became one of its leading members as it ultimately crumbled as a result of the Massive Resistance crisis.[1]

  1. ^ Bugg, J. L. and the Dictionary of Virginia Biography. "Robert Y. Button (1899–1977)." in Encyclopedia Virginia (Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2 Nov. 2015), available at http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Button_Robert_Young_1899-1977#start_entry