Robert B. Howell

Robert Beecher Howell

Robert Beecher Howell (born January 21, 1864 in Adrian , Lenawee County , Michigan , †  March 11, 1933 in Washington DC ) was an American politician and between 1922 and 1933 US Senator for the state of Nebraska .

Early years

Robert Beecher Howell was born in Michigan, where he first attended public schools. Then he attended the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis , Maryland until 1885 . After graduating, he attended Detroit Law School and moved to Omaha in 1888.

Political rise

In the Spanish-American War served Howell in the United States Navy as a lieutenant . Between 1902 and 1904 he was a member of the Nebraska Legislature and a member of the Omaha Water Board , which was replaced by the Metropolitan Water District in 1913 and finally by the Omaha Metropolitan Utilities District in 1921 . Howell has been its chairman since 1913 and delegated the business related to the construction and expansion of water and, from 1921, gas systems.

In 1912, 1916 and 1920 he was elected to the Republican National Committee . After an unsuccessful attempt to become governor of Nebraska in 1914, he served in the Navy Reserve from 1917 to 1923. In 1921 he was chairman of the radio commission for the United States Post Office Department . A year later, on March 4, 1922, he began his first term as a US Senator for the state of Nebraska. From 1927 he held the office of chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Claims . In 1928 he was re-elected for a further legislative term. He died while still in office on March 11, 1933 in Washington. His body was transferred to Nebraska and buried in Omaha.

Web links

• Robert B. Howell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Robert B. Howell in the database of Find a Grave (English)