Edward F. "Jack" Howrey (September 6, 1903 – April 10, 1996) was the chair of the

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from April 1, 1953, to September 12, 1955.List of Commissioners, Chairwomen, and Chairmen of the Federal Trade Commission: 1915-2018 (as of November 2018)
Born in

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, Howrey received an

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from the

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in 1925, followed by an

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from the

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in 1927. From 1927 to 1929 he worked for the

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, working with the

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on an antitrust investigation of the motion-picture industry. He then worked for private firms in Chicago and Washington, D.C., until 1953. U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce,
Nomination of Edward F. Howrey to Federal Trade Commission
(March 18, 1953), p. 1-2."Edward F. Howrey", ''The Cedar Rapids Gazette'' (April 24, 1996), p. 10. In 1951, he argued the largest Indian claim case to come before the United States Supreme Court to that date, on behalf of the Alcea Band of Tillamooks. In 1953, President

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appointed Howrey to chair the FTC, where he remained until 1955. Howrey then founded the law firm,

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, specializing in antitrust litigation, which eventually became "one of the leading and largest firms in Washington, D.C." Howrey retired from practice in the 1980s. In 1933, Howrey married Jane Pickett Gould. Following her death, he remarried to childhood friend India Picket Lilly in 1989. Howrey died of

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and

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at Winchester Hospital in Virginia at the age of 96.

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