Jerry Butler (singer)
Jerry Butler (born Jerry Butler Jr., December 8, 1939, Sunflower, Mississippi) is an American soul singer and songwriter. He is also noted as being the original lead singer of the famed R&B vocal group, The Impressions, as well as a 1991 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Butler is also an American politician. He serves as a Commissioner for Cook County, Illinois, having first been elected in 1985. As a member of this 17-member county board, he chairs the Health and Hospitals Committee, and serves as Vice Chair of the Construction Committee.
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“Who talks of Plato’s spindle;
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Eternity may dwindle,
Time is unwound,
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—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The rider, the birds that range
From cloud to tumbling cloud,
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—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)