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This attends blog post by Margaret McAleer, a historian in the Manuscript Department.

Major Archie Butt, a pal and also aide to two head of states, stood on the deck of the sinking RMS Titanic in the very early morning hours of April 15, 1912. He as well as Frank Millet, his buddy and probably much more, would certainly not survive the next couple of hrs, although exactly just how they passed away has provided Titanic conjecture for more than a century.

The story of Butt's fatality is one of the most touching minutes in the Library's freshly digitized William H. Taft Papers. His is the largest of the Manuscript Division's 23 governmental collections, comprising approximately 676,000 records covering his individual life as well as public career, including his term as United state president, 1909-1913, and also his tenure as primary justice of the United state Supreme Court, 1921-1930.

Few moments are more moving than his destruction at the fatality of Butt, a man he considered a "younger brother." Taft cried so freely at one of his funeral that he had to be led from the podium.

"Never ever did I know how much he was to me until he was dead," titanic death Taft eulogized.

Beginning in the early 1890s, Archibald Willingham Butt succeeded in making Washington, D.C., his very own. The affable Georgia native was popular in the city from the moment he got here as a paper contributor. In 1898, Butt signed up with the armed forces when war broke out with Spain. His fatigue clothes became his trademark appearance, as he was quite the dandy: "A flash of bewild'ring dazzle," the poet William J. Lampton composed.

Butt came to be Head of state Theodore Roosevelt's close friend and also army aide in 1908, taking to the White House try with "boylike delight," according to a former assistant.


The tale of Butt's death is one of the most touching minutes in the Library's newly digitized William H. Taft Documents. His is the largest of the Manuscript Department's 23 governmental collections, making up roughly 676,000 records covering his personal life and also public profession, including his term as United state head of state, 1909-1913, and his period as primary justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1921-1930. Starting in the early 1890s, Archibald Willingham Butt did well in making Washington, D.C., his own.