Richard Girnt Butler
| Richard Girnt Butler | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 23, 1918 Denver, Colorado |
| Died | September 8, 2004 (aged 86) Hayden, Idaho |
| Nationality | American |
Richard Girnt Butler (February 23, 1918 – September 8, 2004) was an American Christian religious leader and white supremacist. After dedicating himself to Christian Identity, a virulently racist and antisemitic offshoot of Christianity and British Israelism, Butler founded the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations and would become one of the most well known and influential leaders of the American far-right.
Butler was born in Denver, Colorado, to Winfred Girnt and Clarence Butler. His father was of English ancestry, while his mother was of German-English ancestry. He was raised in Los Angeles, California, and after graduating from high school in 1938, he became an aeronautical engineering major at Los Angeles City College. He was a co-inventor of the rapid repair of tubeless tires, for which he held both U.S. and Canadian patents.
Butler was a former member of the Silver Shirts.
While he was a member of a Presbyterian church he married Betty Litch in 1941, with whom he fathered two daughters. Litch died on December 1, 1995 after 54 years of marriage. After Pearl Harbor, Butler enlisted in the Army Air Corps where he served stateside for the duration of World War II.
In 1946, Butler organized and operated a machine plant for the production and precision machining of automotive parts and engine assemblies for commercial and military aircraft in the United States, Africa, and India. Butler was a marketing analyst for new inventions from 1964 to 1973. Butler later became a senior manufacturing engineer for Lockheed Martin in Palmdale, California.
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