Everette B. Howard

Everette Burgess Howard ( born September 19, 1873 in Morgantown, Butler County, Kentucky, † April 3, 1950 in Midland, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1927 he represented several times the first electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Everette Howard attended the common schools, and then learned the printing trade. Then he went into the newspaper business in Kentucky, Oklahoma and Missouri. In 1905, he moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma Territory. There he ran a brickyard and was active in the gas and oil business.

Politically, Howard became a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1911 and 1915 he was a member of the Public Committee of Oklahoma and from 1915 to 1919, he served as State Auditor at the Court of that State. 1918 Howard was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he Republican Thomas Alberter Chandler replaced on March 4, 1919. Since he lost the election of 1920 against Chandler, he was initially able to complete a term in Congress until March 3, 1921. In the next elections in 1922, Howard then managed the re- entry into the House of Representatives. There he graduated between 4 March 1923 and 3 March 1925 further legislative period. In 1924 he not applied for a re-election. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully within his party for the nomination as a U.S. Senator. In 1926 he was elected a second time in Congress, where he still spent a term 1927-1929.

After the end of his time in Congress, Howard again devoted his private business in the oil and gas industry in Oklahoma and Texas.