Howard Mutchler

Howard Mutchler ( born February 12, 1859 in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, † January 4, 1916 ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1903 he represented two times the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Howard Mutchler was the son of Congressman William Mutchler ( 1831-1893 ). He attended the common schools and then the Phillips Academy in Andover. Then he started with his father to study law, but he broke off with no qualifications to work in the newspaper industry. In Easton, he gave out after two daily newspapers. Politically, he was like his father, a member of the Democratic Party.

After the death of his father, who died as a Congressman, Howard Mutchler was at the due election for the seventh seat of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on August 7, 1893. Since he resigned at the regular congressional elections of 1894 on another candidacy, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1895.

In the congressional elections of 1900, Mutchler was re-elected in the seventh election district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Laird Howard Barber on March 4, 1901. Since he no longer took in 1902 for re-election, he was able to complete only one more term in Congress until March 3, 1903. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Howard Mutchler operated again in the newspaper business. He died on 4 January 1916 in Easton, where he was also buried.