Tilghman Howard

Tilghman Ashurst Howard ( * November 14, 1797 at Pickensville, South Carolina; † August 16, 1844 in Washington, Texas ) was an American politician. In 1839 and 1840 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Tilghman Howard attended the public schools of his home. In 1816 he came to Knoxville in Tennessee. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1818 admitted to the bar he began working in Knoxville in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1824 he was a member of the Senate of Tennessee. Six years later, in 1830, he moved to Bloomington, Indiana, where he also practiced law. Since 1833 he has been resident in Rockville. Between 1833 and 1837 served Howard as Federal Attorney for the District of Indiana. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party, founded by Andrew Jackson.

In 1838 and 1843 Howard ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. On August 5, 1839, he was at a by-election in the Seventh Congressional District of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. This mandate he held until his resignation on 1 June 1840. This year he applied for the governorship of Indiana, but was defeated by the Whig candidate Samuel Bigger with 46:53 percent of the vote. On June 11, 1844 Tilghman Howard was appointed American ambassador to the then independent Republic of Texas. Only a few weeks after he had arrived there, he died in the city of Washington.