Everette B. Howard Explained

Everette Burgess Howard
State:Oklahoma
Term Start:March 4, 1927
Term End:March 3, 1929
Preceded:Samuel J. Montgomery
Succeeded:Charles O'Connor
Term Start1:March 4, 1923
Term End1:March 3, 1925
Preceded1:Thomas Alberter Chandler
Succeeded1:Samuel J. Montgomery
Term Start2:March 4, 1919
Term End2:March 3, 1921
Preceded2:Thomas Alberter Chandler
Succeeded2:Thomas Alberter Chandler
Office3:4th Oklahoma State Auditor
Term Start3:January 1915
Term End3:January 1919
Preceded3:Joseph C. McClelland
Succeeded3:Frank C. Carter
Birth Date: September 19, 1873
Birth Place:Morgantown, Kentucky
Death Place:Midland, Texas
Spouse:Hollis Hope Howard
Children:Paxton Howard
Profession:newspaper printer
brick manufacturer
oil producer
politician
Party:Democratic

Everette Burgess Howard (September 19, 1873 – April 3, 1950) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.

Biography

Born in Morgantown, Kentucky, Howard was the son of Addison A. and Addie P. Harreld Howard. He attended the public schools, and learned the art of printing and engaged in newspaper work in Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Missouri. He married Hollis Hope in Missouri on December 4, 1895, and they had one son, Paxton.[1]

Career

Howard moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1905 and engaged in the manufacture of brick and in the production of oil and gas. He served as a member of the State board of public affairs from 1911 to 1915, and as State auditor of Oklahoma from 1915 to 1919.[2]

Elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress, as a Representative from Oklahoma, serving from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1921. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress, he was elected to the Sixty-eighth Congress. and served from March 4, 1923, to March 3, 1925. Not a candidate for renomination in 1924, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator. He was then elected to the Seventieth Congress as Representative and served from March 4, 1927, to March 3, 1929.[3] He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress.

Returning to his private business, Howard engaged in the production of oil and gas in Oklahoma and Texas.

Death

Howard died in Midland, Texas, on April 3, 1950. He is interred at Memorial Park, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Everette B. Howard. Oklahoma Historical Society. 28 May 2013. 19 November 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121119151434/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/H/HO040.html. dead.
  2. Web site: Everette B. Howard. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 28 May 2013.
  3. Web site: Everette B. Howard. Govtrack US Congress. 28 May 2013.
  4. Web site: Everette B. Howard. The Political Graveyard. 28 May 2013.