Jacob M. Howard

Jacob Merritt Howard ( * July 10, 1805 in Shaftsbury, Bennington County, Vermont, † April 2, 1871 in Detroit, Michigan ) was an American politician of the Republican Party and both a Member of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senator for the State of Michigan.

Biography

After attending district schools, the Academy of Bennington and the Academy of Brattleboro, he studied at Williams College in Williamstown. After completion of this study in 1830, he studied law and was admitted after his move to Detroit in 1832 in 1833 to become a lawyer in the state of Michigan. He then worked as a lawyer in Detroit before he was appointed in 1834 Prosecutor ( City Attorney ) Detroit.

In 1838 he began his political career with election to the House of Representatives from Michigan. After his election as Members of the U.S. Repräsentenhauses he belonged to the 27th U.S. Congress on 4 March 1841 to 3 March 1843 represented the interests of the Whig party there. In the 1842 election, however, he abandoned a bid again and was instead working as a lawyer again.

In 1854 he was one of the co-organizers of the first Republican Party meeting in Jackson. He was subsequently 1855-1861 Minister of Justice ( Attorney General ) of Michigan.

As a representative of the Republican Party, he was elected after the death of Kinsley S. Bingham on October 5, 1861 U.S. Senator for Michigan to complete from the January 17, 1862 whose term of office as holder of the second Senate seat ( Senator Class 2). Following his re- election, he belonged to the U.S. Senate until March 3, 1871, and died almost a month later.

During his tenure, he was from 1863 to 1871 Chairman of the Senate Committee on Pacific Railroads (U.S. Senate Committee on Pacific Railroads ), which for the railroads Union Pacific Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad, Missouri Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Transportation, Chicago, rock Iceland and Pacific Railroad, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, Northern Pacific Railway and Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad was in charge and by the construction of the railway lines promoted the colonization of the United States.

Whig Party (United States) Jackson (Michigan) United States congressional delegations from Michigan Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Michigan Territory William Woodbridge Solomon Sibley Gabriel Richard Austin Eli Wing John Biddle (Michigan politician) George W. Jones Isaac E. Crary Robert McClelland (American politician) Alexander W. Buel Ebenezer J. Penniman David Stuart (Michigan politician) William Alanson Howard George B. Cooper Bradley F. Granger Fernando C. Beaman Henry Waldron Moses W. Field Alpheus S. Williams John Stoughton Newberry Henry W. Lord William C. Maybury John Logan Chipman Levi T. Griffin John Blaisdell Corliss Alfred Lucking Edwin Denby (politician) Frank Ellsworth Doremus George P. Codd Robert H. Clancy John B. Sosnowski George G. Sadowski Rudolph G. Tenerowicz Lucien N. Nedzi John Conyers Bart Stupak John Smith Chipman Edward Bradley (politician) Charles E. Stuart David A. Noble Charles Upson William L. Stoughton Edwin Willits Nathaniel B. Eldredge Edward P. Allen James S. Gorman George Spalding Henry C. Smith Charles E. Townsend William Wedemeyer Mark R. Bacon Earl C. Michener John C. Lehr George Meader Weston E. Vivian Bill Huizenga James B. Hunt James L. Conger Samuel Clark David S. Walbridge Francis William Kellogg John W. Longyear Austin Blair George Willard Jonas H. McGowan Edward S. Lacey Alfred Milnes Albert M. Todd Washington Gardner John M. C. Smith Arthur B. Williams Joseph L. Hooper Henry M. Kimball Verner Main Paul W. Shafer August E. Johansen Paul H. Todd, Jr. Garry E. Brown Howard Wolpe Paul B. Henry Vern Ehlers Hestor L. Stevens George Washington Peck DeWitt C. Leach Rowland E. Trowbridge Thomas W. Ferry Wilder D. Foster Allen Potter Edwin W. Keightley George L. Yaple Henry F. Thomas Edward L. Hamilton John C. Ketcham George Ernest Foulkes Clare Hoffman J. Edward Hutchinson David Stockman Mark D. Siljander Fred Upton Augustus C. Baldwin William B. Williams (politician) John W. Stone George W. Webber Julius Houseman Charles C. Comstock Melbourne H. Ford Charles E. Belknap George F. Richardson William Alden Smith Edwin F. Sweet Carl E. Mapes Bartel J. Jonkman Gerald Ford Richard Vander Veen Harold S. Sawyer James A. Barcia Dale Kildee Dan Kildee John F. Driggs Randolph Strickland Jabez G. Sutherland George H. Durand Mark S. Brewer Oliver L. Spaulding Edwin B. Winans (politician) Byron G. Stout David D. Aitken Samuel William Smith Patrick H. Kelley Grant M. Hudson Seymour H. Person Claude E. Cady William W. Blackney Andrew J. Transue Kit Clardy Donald Hayworth Charles E. Chamberlain Milton Robert Carr James Whitney Dunn John Tyler Rich Ezra C. Carleton Justin Rice Whiting Horace G. Snover Edgar Weeks Henry McMorran Jesse P. Wolcott Robert J. McIntosh John C. Mackie Donald W. Riegle, Jr. Nick Smith (U.S. politician) Joe Schwarz Tim Walberg Mark Schauer Nathan B. Bradley Charles C. Ellsworth Roswell G. Horr Timothy E. Tarsney Henry M. Youmans William S. Linton Ferdinand Brucker Bird J. Vincent Michael J. Hart Fred L. Crawford Alvin Morell Bentley R. James Harvey J. Bob Traxler Dick Chrysler Debbie Stabenow Mike Rogers (Michigan politician) Jay Abel Hubbell Byron M. Cutcheon Harrison H. Wheeler John W. Moon Roswell P. Bishop James C. McLaughlin Harry W. Musselwhite Albert J. Engel Ruth Thompson Guy Vander Jagt Joe Knollenberg Gary Peters (politician) Herschel H. Hatch Spencer O. Fisher Frank W. Wheeler Thomas A. E. Weadock Rousseau Owen Crump Henry H. Aplin George A. Loud Roy O. Woodruff Gilbert A. Currie Elford Albin Cederberg Bill Schuette Edward Breitung Seth C. Moffatt Henry W. Seymour Samuel M. Stephenson John Avery (politician) Archibald B. Darragh Francis H. Dodds Francis O. Lindquist Frank D. Scott Frank P. Bohn Prentiss M. Brown John F. Luecke Frederick Van Ness Bradley Charles E. Potter Victor A. Knox Raymond F. Clevenger Philip Ruppe Robert William Davis David Curson Carlos D. Shelden H. Olin Young William Josiah MacDonald W. Frank James Frank Eugene Hook John B. Bennett John Dingell Charles Archibald Nichols Clarence J. McLeod Vincent M. Brennan Howard A. Coffin George W. Crockett, Jr. Barbara-Rose Collins William D. Ford Lynn N. Rivers Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick Hansen Clarke Carl M. Weideman Louis C. Rabaut Harold F. Youngblood Harold M. Ryan Dennis M. Hertel John D. Dingell, Sr. John Lesinski, Sr. John Lesinski, Jr. Charles G. Oakman Martha Griffiths William M. Brodhead William Broomfield Robert J. Huber James Blanchard Neil Staebler Billie S. Farnum Jack H. McDonald Augustus Seymour Porter Lewis Cass Thomas Fitzgerald (American politician) Zachariah Chandler Henry P. Baldwin Francis B. Stockbridge John Patton, Jr. John Norvell Alpheus Felch Thomas W. Palmer James McMillan (politician) Truman Handy Newberry Patrick V. McNamara Carl Levin

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