Charles Benjamin Howard Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Hon.
Charles Benjamin Howard
Office:Member of Parliament for Sherbrooke
Predecessor:riding created
Successor:Maurice Gingues
Term Start:October 1925
Term End:January 1940
Office2:Senator for Wellington, Quebec
Appointed2:William Lyon Mackenzie King
Predecessor2:Albert Joseph Brown
Successor2:Paul Desruisseaux
Term Start2:8 February 1940
Term End2:25 March 1964
Birth Date:1885 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Smith's Mills, Quebec
Death Place:Sherbrooke, Quebec
Spouse:1) Alberta May Campbell
m. 1 June 1908[1]
3) Simone Lemieux
Party:Liberal
Occupation:businessman, industrialist, lumber merchant

Charles Benjamin Howard (27 September 1885  - 25 March 1964) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Smith's Mills, Quebec in Stanstead County and became a businessman, industrialist and lumber merchant.

Howard attended high school at Sherbrooke then Stanstead Wesleyan College. In 1923, he assumed the presidency of his family's lumber operation, B.C. Howard Company, following his father's death. In 1950 and 1951, Howard was mayor of Sherbrooke.

He was first elected to Parliament at the Sherbrooke riding in the 1925 general election then re-elected in 1926, 1930 and 1935. After completing his term in the 18th Canadian Parliament, Howard left the House of Commons and was appointed to the Senate for the Wellington, Quebec division.

On 25 March 1964, Howard died at his Sherbrooke residence shortly after completing a visit to Mexico. He remained a Senator at that time.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Normandin, A.L. . Canadian Parliamentary Guide . 1936. 1940.
  2. News: Senator C.B. Howard / Served 39 Years in Two Houses of Parliament . . 26 March 1964 . 41 . The Canadian Press . The Canadian Press .