Richard Butler (white supremacist)

Richard Butler
Born(1918-02-23)February 23, 1918
DiedSeptember 8, 2004(2004-09-08) (aged 86)
Hayden, Idaho, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materLos Angeles City College
OccupationAerospace engineer
Spouse
Betty Litch
(m. 1941; died 1995)
Children2
Military career
Allegiance United States of America
Service / branch United States Army Air Forces
Years of service1942–1945
Battles / warsWorld War II

Richard Girnt Butler (February 23, 1918 September 8, 2004) was an American engineer and neo-Nazi. After dedicating himself to the Christian Identity movement, a racist offshoot of British Israelism, Butler founded the National Socialist Aryan Nations and would become the "spiritual godfather" to the white separatist movement, in which he was a leading figure. He has been described as a "notorious racist".