Milford Wriarson Howard (December 18, 1862 – December 28, 1937) was a

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Representative from

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. Howard was first elected to the

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as a

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in 1894, defeating incumbent William H. Denson. He was reelected in 1896 in a three-way race, although he won only 35.8% of the vote. He did not seek another term in 1898. He was the last Populist to hold Congressional office from Alabama. Howard returned to his hometown of

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to practice law. In 1908, his name was put into nomination for the presidency at the first convention of the Independence Party in Chicago, but he finished third in the balloting to Thomas L. Hisgen. He moved to

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in 1918 to pursue literary efforts and worked briefly in the silent movie business. Meeting with

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in the late 1920s, Howard would become a committed

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for the rest of his life. In 1934, he was one of the editors of '' The Awakener''. Following his death in Los Angeles, his cremated remains were interred, along with those of his first wife, in a large rock, into which the Sallie Howard Chapel, a memorial to his first wife near

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, was built.

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