![]() Nevertheless, Haverford awarded him his high school diploma on June 6, 1898, before the end of his final year his transcript stated he completed the Scientific Course "with Credit". Against the wishes of his father, he left school 38 days before his seventeenth birthday to enlist in the Marine Corps during the Spanish–American War. A Haverford athlete, he became captain of its baseball team and quarterback of its football team. ![]() īutler attended the West Chester Friends Graded High School, followed by The Haverford School, a secondary school popular with sons of upper-class Philadelphia families. His maternal grandfather was Smedley Darlington, a Republican Congressman from 1887 to 1891. His father was a lawyer, a judge and, for 31 years, a Congressman and chair of the House Naval Affairs Committee during the Harding and Coolidge administrations. His parents, Thomas and Maud (née Darlington) Butler, were descended from local Quaker families. Smedley Butler was born July 30, 1881, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, the eldest of three sons.
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