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- Birth nameAlexander Porter Butterfield
- Alexander Butterfield was born on April 6, 1926 in Pensacola, Florida, USA. He was an actor, known for Nixon (1995), Memphis Rising: Elvis Returns (2011) and Elvis from Outer Space (2020). He was married to Charlotte Mary Maguire and Kim Chiang. He died on March 9, 2026 in La Jolla, San Diego, California, USA.
- SpousesCharlotte Mary Maguire(September 9, 1949 - 1985) (divorced, 4 children)Kim Chiang(? - March 9, 2026) (his death)
- ChildrenLeslie Carter ButterfieldElizabeth Gordon 'Lisa' Butterfield (Buchholz)Susan Carter Butterfield (Holcomb)Alexander Porter Butterfield Jr.
- ParentsHorace Bushnell ButterfieldSusan Armistead Alexander
- RelativesCharles Warren Butterfield(Sibling)
- He supervised the installation of a secret taping system in the Oval Office of the White House, and was one of only a few who knew about it. The discovery of recordings made there were later to lead to President Richard Nixon's resignation from office.
- He had a small part as a White House staffer in Nixon (1995), the biopic about President Richard Nixon, whom he served in his real-life job as a White House staffer.
- Left UCLA to join the Navy and later earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland in 1956 and a master's degree from George Washington University in 1967.
- In 1948, he joined the Air Force and served as an instructor at a base near Las Vegas during the Korean War and later served in Germany.
- After leaving the FAA, Butterfield worked as a business executive in California. He earned a master's degree from the University of California, San Diego, in 1994.
- [on relocating to California after resigning from his duties in Richard Nixon's administration] Nobody knew, you know, my name. Back east, a waiter in a New York restaurant might know from a credit card. But out here, no way. You could spell it out, and you could even tell them you had a key role in Watergate. They'd say, Water-what?
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