James Robinson Howe (January 27, 1839 – September 21, 1914) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
New York
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Biography
Born in New York City on January 27, 1839, Howe attended the common schools.
He was employed as a clerk in a dry-goods store.
He moved to Brooklyn in 1870 and engaged in the dry-goods business.
Howe was elected as a
Republican to the
Fifty-fourth and
Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1899). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1898. Register of Kings County 1900–1902. He served as director of several banks. He died in
North Salem, New York
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, on September 21, 1914. He was interred in
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
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1839 births
1914 deaths
Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
19th-century American legislators