About John W. Howe
Lived 1801 – 1873 (aged 72). John W. Howe was an American politician and lawyer.
John W. Howe (March 11, 1801 – November 30, 1873) was a Free Soil and Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography Howe was born in Massachusetts' District of Maine in 1801. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He moved to Smethport, Pennsylvania, and then to Franklin, Pennsylvania, in 1829 and commenced the practice of law. He also served as justice of the peace.
Howe was elected as a Free Soil candidate to the Thirty-first Congress and reelected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress. He moved to Meadville, Pennsylvania, and later to Rochester, New York, where he died in 1873. Interment in Greendale Cemetery in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
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American politician
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John W. Howe was born on 11 March 1801 in Maine.
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John W. Howe died on 1 December 1873 in Rochester.
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John W. Howe was a politician and lawyer.
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