About Howard Webster Byers
Lived 1856 – 1928 (aged 71). Howard Webster Byers was an American politician.
Howard Webster Byers (December 25, 1856 – March 24, 1928) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 14th Iowa Attorney General from 1907 to 1911.
Early life
Byers was born in a log cabin in Woodstock, Wisconsin on Christmas Day, 1856. His parents were Dr. Andrew Clinton Byers and Mary Caldwell (née Holwell) Byers, His family moved to Hancock County, Iowa in 1873, when Byers was 17. On June 7, 1910, he ran in the Republican primary against former Iowa Judge and then-incumbent congressman Walter I. Smith.
Byers died on March 28, 1928 at Mercy Hospital in Des Moines. Mary died on September 6, 1946, aged 81.
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American lawyer and politician (1856-1928)
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