From The Commercial Appeal    Washington Bureau
Washington, Sept. 26...Dr. Alfred B. Butts, widely known former Mississippi
educator, died at a Washington hospital at 3 a.m. Thursday after a heart
attack.  He was 72.

Stricken while teaching a class of Army officers and Defense Department
civilians at the Pentagon Wednesday night, Dr. Butts was taken first to his
home and then to the hospital.

Dr. Butts served as chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1935 to
1946.  From 1946 until last year, he was director of education for the
Department of the Army, directing the post-graduate education of Regular
Army officers in civillian universities.

Beginning last year, he served as consultant on education to the Defense
Department, teaching classes several times a week.

Born in Durham, N.C., he moved to Artesia, Miss., when he was two.  He was
graduated from Mississippi State College.  He received his Master of Arts
degree from Mississippi State, doctor of philosophy degree from Yale
University Law School.

He became vice president and head of the department of government at
Mississippi State in 1930, holding those positions until he moved to Ole
Miss in 1935.

On leave from Ole Miss, he was on active duty with the Army from July 1,
1942, to Jan. 15, 1944, spending most of that time as a lieutenant colonel
and assistant staff judge advocate at Gen. Ben Lear's Second Army
headquarters in Memphis.  After World War II, he was promoted colonel in the
Army Reserve.

Dr. Butts was the author of one book, Public Administration in Mississippi,
and many law journal articles.

Services will be held in Washington Thursday afternoon at 3:30 at the Robert
Humphrey Funeral Home, 7557 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.  The body then will be
taken to Starkville, Miss., for services in the Starkville First Methodist
Church and burial in the church cemetary Saturday.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Mary Evans Lampkin Butts; a son, Lampkin H. Butts
of Laurel, Miss.; and three daughters, Mrs. Read Patten Dunn Jr. of Bethesda,
 Md., Mrs. John Albert Latimer of Ridgewood, N.J., and Miss Dorothy Butts of
Washington.