Volney Howard

Volney Erskine Howard ( born October 22, 1809 in Norridgewock, Massachusetts, † May 14, 1889 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American politician. Between 1849 and 1853 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born in present-day Maine Volney Howard attended the common schools and the Bloomfield Academy and Waterville College. After a subsequent law degree in 1832 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Brandon (Mississippi) to work in this profession. In 1836 he became a deputy in the House of Representatives from Mississippi. At that time he was also court spokesman ( reporter ) of the Supreme Court of Mississippi. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1840 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress. At that time he was also editor of a newspaper. About New Orleans Howard came to San Antonio in Texas. It was in 1846 for six months, the first Attorney General of the new state. He was also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of Texas.

In the congressional elections of 1848, Howard became the second electoral district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Timothy Pilsbury on March 4, 1849. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1853 two legislative sessions. These were determined from discussions on slavery. In 1852, Howard was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked as a lawyer in San Francisco and then in Los Angeles. Between 1861 and 1870 he was district attorney in his new home. In the years 1878 and 1879, he participated in a meeting to revise the State Constitution as a delegate. 1879 Volney Howard was appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles. For health reasons, but he was able to exercise only for a term of this office. He died on 14 May 1889 in Santa Monica and was buried in Los Angeles.