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Robert L. Butler (born January 23 1927) is the current Mayor of Marion Illinois serving in his 13th term. Butler has been Mayor of Marion since 1963. He is the son of Homer and Eva (Clarida) Butler. His father served six years on the Marion City Council starting in the 1930s. His maternal grandfather J. H. Clarida served as mayor of the city in the 1920s during the Bloody Williamson era.