Charles R. Howell

Charles R. Howell

Charles Robert Howell (born April 23, 1904 in Trenton , New Jersey , †  July 5, 1973 there ) was an American politician . Between 1949 and 1955 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Howell attended the common schools and then the Hoosac School in Hoosick ( New York ). In 1923 and 1924 he studied at Princeton University . From 1936 to 1937 he finished his education at the University of Pennsylvania . Howell was an insurance broker in Trenton from 1928 to 1954, including while he was a member of Congress. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1944 and 1947 he was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly .

In the 1948 congressional elections , Howell was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded Frank A. Mathews on January 3, 1949 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1955 . During his time in Congress, the Korean War and the beginning of the civil rights movement fell . In 1951 the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.

In 1954 Howell declined to run for the US House of Representatives again. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate . Between February 1955 and March 1969 he was state commissioner for banking and insurance in New Jersey. In August 1956 he took part as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where Adlai Stevenson was nominated for the second time as a presidential candidate. Charles Howell died on July 5, 1973 in his native Trenton.

Web links

• Charles R. Howell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles R. Howell in the database of Find a Grave (English)