Everette B. Howard

Everette B. Howard

Everette Burgess Howard (born September 19, 1873 in Morgantown , Butler County , Kentucky , † April 3, 1950 in Midland , Texas ) was an American politician . Between 1919 and 1927 he represented the first constituency of the state of Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives several times .

Career

Everette Howard attended public schools in his home country and then learned the printing trade. He then went into the newspaper business in Kentucky, Oklahoma and Missouri . In 1905 he moved to Tulsa , Oklahoma Territory . There he ran a brick factory and worked in the gas and oil business.

Politically, Howard became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1911 and 1915 he was a member of the Oklahoma Public Committee and from 1915 to 1919 he was the State Auditor of the State Audit Office. In 1918 Howard was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he replaced the Republican Thomas Alberter Chandler on March 4, 1919 . Since he lost the election of 1920 against Chandler, he was initially able to complete a term in Congress until March 3, 1921 . In the next elections in 1922, Howard managed to get back into the House of Representatives. There he completed a further legislative period between March 4, 1923 and March 3, 1925. In 1924, he did not run for re-election. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully within his party for the nomination as a US Senator . In 1926 he was re-elected to Congress, where he still served a term between 1927 and 1929.

After his tenure in Congress was over, Howard returned to his private business in the gas and oil industries in Oklahoma and Texas.

Web links

• Everette B. Howard in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Everette B. Howard in the database of Find a Grave (English)