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Senate Years of Service: 1862-1871 Party: Republican
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Library of Congress
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HOWARD, Jacob Merritt, a Representative and a Senator from Michigan; born in Shaftsbury,
Bennington County, Vt., July 10, 1805; attended the district schools and the
academies of Bennington and Brattleboro; graduated from Williams College,
Williamstown, Mass., in 1830; studied law; moved to Detroit, Mich., in 1832;
admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice in Detroit; city attorney of
Detroit in 1834; member, State house of representatives 1838; elected as a Whig
to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1842; helped draw up the platform of the first
Republican convention in 1854; attorney general of Michigan 1855-1861; elected
as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Kinsley S. Bingham; reelected in 1865 and served from January 17,
1862, to March 3, 1871; chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads (Thirty-eighth
through Forty-first Congresses); died in Detroit, Mich., April 2, 1871;
interment in Elmwood Cemetery.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Republican Centennial
Committee of Shaftesbury [Vermont].
The Story of Shaftesbury, Vermont: With an Account of Jacob Merritt
Howard Who Wrote the Resolutions On Which the Republican Party Was
Founded. Shaftsbury: Town Republican Centennial Committee, 1954.
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