James R. Howe

James Howe Robinson ( born January 27, 1839 in New York City; † September 21, 1914 in North Salem, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1899 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Robinson Howe was born City about seven years before the outbreak of the Mexican - American War in New York. He attended community schools and worked as a clerk ( clerk ) in a haberdashery (dry -goods store). In 1870 he moved to the then still independent city of Brooklyn, where he brought to his previous occupation. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1894 Howe was the sixth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas F. Magner on March 4, 1895. After a successful re-election he resigned in 1898 to run again and was eliminated after March 3, in 1899 the Congress of.

Between 1900 and 1902 he worked as Registrar in Kings County. Howe was director of several banks. He died on 21 September 1914 in North Salem and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.