Edgar Howard

Edgar Howard ( born September 16, 1858 in Osceola, Clarke County, Iowa, † July 19, 1951 in Columbus, Nebraska ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1935 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edgar Howard attended the public schools of his home, the Western Collegiate Institute and the Iowa College of Law, where he studied law. He then worked as a newspaper reporter and editor until 1884 as various local newspapers. From 1884 to 1900 he moved the newspaper " Papillion Times ". After his made ​​in 1886 admitted to the bar he began in Papillion to work in his new profession. From 1896 to 1900 he was a judge in a probate court in Sarpy County. In addition to this, he continued his career in the newspaper business. In 1900 he acquired the weekly newspaper "Weekly Telegram of Columbus ", which he made to a newspaper from 1922.

Politically Edgar Howard was a member of the Democratic Party, for which he sat from 1894 to 1896 in the House of Representatives from Nebraska. In 1896 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Between 1917 and 1919 he served as Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska. 1922 Howard was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced Robert E. Evans of the Republican Party on March 4, 1923. After several re- elections he could implement his mandate in Congress until January 3, 1935. At times he was chairman of the Indian Committee. In the congressional elections of 1934 he was defeated by Republican Karl Stefan.

In 1938, Howard ran again for the U.S. House of Representatives. This time he lost to Stefan. After he retired from politics and returned to the newspaper business. He died in July 1951 in Columbus, and was also buried there.

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