Tripti Joshi (Editor)

Benjamin Franklin Howell

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Political party
  
Republican

Party
  
Republican Party

Profession
  
Politician

Succeeded by
  
Thomas J. Scully

Name
  
Benjamin Howell

Resigned
  
March 3, 1911

Role
  
Politician


Benjamin Franklin Howell httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Preceded by
  
Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer

Died
  
February 1, 1933, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

Template:Infobox Congressmen Benjamin Franklin Howell (January 27, 1844 – February 1, 1933) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1895 to 1911.

Benjamin Franklin Howell Benjamin Franklin Howell Wikipedia

Born in Cedarville, New Jersey, Howell attended the common schools, and graduated from Fort Edward Institute, New York. He enlisted in the Twelfth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, in 1862 and served until the close of the war. He engaged in mercantile pursuits in South Amboy, New Jersey, 1865 and was named to the Township Committee, and served as Surrogate of Middlesex County from 1882 to 1892. He served as president of the People's National Bank of New Brunswick and vice president of the New Brunswick Savings Institution.

Benjamin Franklin Howell Benjamin Franklin Howell 1844 1933 Find A Grave Memorial

Howell was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the seven succeeding Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1895 to March 3, 1911. He served as chairman of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization (Fifty-eighth through Sixty-first Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress.

He served as a delegate to the 1896 Republican National Convention. He served as a member of the United States Immigration Commission 1907-1910. He died at the age of 89 at his home in New Brunswick, New Jersey, February 1, 1933, and was interred in Christ Cemetery, South Amboy, New Jersey.

References

Benjamin Franklin Howell Wikipedia