Albert R. Howe

Albert Howe Richards ( born January 1, 1840 in Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † June 1, 1884 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Albert Howe grew up in Massachusetts and went through the local schools. During the Civil War he entered the Union Army from simple soldiers to up to Major. After the war he settled in Como in Panola County, Mississippi down. There he ran a cotton plantation.

Howe was a member of the Republican Party, the Republican National Convention in 1868, he attended as a delegate. There, General Ulysses S. Grant was nominated as presidential candidate of the party. Also in 1868, Howe was a delegate to a meeting to revise the constitution of Mississippi. In 1869 he became treasurer in Panola County and 1870-1872 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Mississippi.

1872 Howe was in the second district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph L. Morphis on March 4, 1873. Since he has not been confirmed at the next elections, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1875. After the end of his time in Congress Howe moved in 1875 to Illinois, where he was active in Chicago in the stock market business. He died on 1 June 1884 in Chicago and was then buried in his birthplace of Brookfield.