Helen May Butler
Helen May Butler (1867–1957) was an American
bandleader and composer who has been called "The female
Sousa". Leading an all-women's band from 1898 to 1912, she had an extremely successful career at a time when women were discouraged from such public activities. Her best-known group, Helen May Butler and Her Ladies' Military Band, was a favorite of President
Theodore Roosevelt, and one of her compositions, "Cosmopolitan American March", was selected as the official march of the
Republican Party during Roosevelt's 1904 election campaign.
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