Helen May Butler
(1867-1957)
American bandleader and composer
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Helen May Butler (1867–1957) was an American bandleader and composer who has been called "The female Sousa". Leading an all-women's band from 1898 to 1912, she had an extremely successful career at a time when women were discouraged from such public activities. Her best-known group, Helen May Butler and Her Ladies' Military Band, was a favorite of President Theodore Roosevelt, and one of her compositions, "Cosmopolitan American March", was selected as the official march of the Republican Party during Roosevelt's 1904 election campaign.
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17 May 1867 Keene, New Hampshire
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| Died |
6 June 1957 (aged 90) Covington, Kentucky
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| Zodiac | Taurus |
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