Preceded by Wayne Owens Name Allan Howe Profession attorney Party Democratic Party | Alma mater University of Utah Education University of Utah Political party Democratic Role U.S. representative Resigned January 3, 1977 | |
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Born September 6, 1927
South Cottonwood, Utah ( 1927-09-06 ) Religion The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Died December 14, 2000, Arlington County, Arlington, Virginia, United States | ||
Succeeded by David Daniel Marriott | ||
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Allan Turner Howe (September 6, 1927 – December 14, 2000) was a U.S. Representative from Utah.
Born in South Cottonwood near Murray, Utah, Howe attended public schools before receiving a B.S. from the University of Utah in 1952 and a J.D.L. from the same university in 1954. He served in the United States Coast Guard from 1946 to 1947. He held a number of legal and governmental jobs, including as deputy Salt Lake County attorney, South Salt Lake city attorney, administrative assistant and field representative to U.S. Senator Frank E. Moss from 1959 to 1964, assistant attorney general of Utah from 1965 to 1966, administrative assistant to Governor Calvin L. Rampton from 1966 to 1968, and executive director of the Four Corners Regional Development Commission from 1968 to 1972. He also practiced law in Salt Lake City, served as a delegate to Utah State Democratic conventions from 1954 to 1960 and was an alternate delegate to the 1960 Democratic National Convention.
Howe was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974. After being arrested for soliciting an undercover police officer posing as a prostitute, he lost reelection to Republican Dan Marriott in 1976.