About James R. Howe
Lived 1839 – 1914 (aged 75). James R. Howe was an American politician.
James Robinson Howe (January 27, 1839 – September 21, 1914) was a U.S. representative from New York.
Biography Born in New York City on January 27, 1839, Howe attended the common schools. He was employed as a clerk in a dry-goods store. He moved to Brooklyn in 1870 and engaged in the dry-goods business.
Howe was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1899). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1898. Register of Kings County 1900–1902. He served as director of several banks. He died in North Salem, New York, on September 21, 1914. He was interred in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
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American politician (1839-1914)
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James R. Howe was born on 27 January 1839 in New York City.
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James R. Howe died on 21 September 1914 in North Salem.
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