Thomas Marshall Howe

Thomas Marshall Howe ( born April 20, 1808 in Williamstown, Orange County, Vermont, † July 20, 1877 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1855 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1817 Thomas Howe moved with his parents to Bloomfield in Ohio, where he attended private schools. He then attended the Warren Academy, also in Ohio. Since 1829 he lived in Pittsburgh. There he worked as a clerk in a dry goods store. In 1833 he started his own business and became active in the sequence in various industries. Between 1839 and 1859 he was at the Exchange National Bank of Pittsburgh, where he advanced from clerk to bank president. He was also involved in copper mining and steel business.

Politically, Howe joined the Whig party to. In the congressional elections of 1850 he was in the 21st electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Moses Hampton on March 4, 1851. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1855 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War. Since 1853, Howe represented as the successor of John W. Howe the 22th district of his state. In 1854 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas Howe took his previous activities on again. Later he served as an Assistant Adjutant General on the staff member of Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin. After the dissolution of the Whigs, he joined the then new Republican Party. In May 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Chicago, was nominated on the Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate. During the Civil War he led the convening authority to the army of the Union in Allegheny County. He was also a founder and the first president of the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh. Thomas Howe died on July 20, 1877 in Pittsburgh, where he was also buried. His son James W. Brown (1844-1909) was also a congressman.