Howard, Jacob Merritt, 1805-1871

LC control no.	n 85337407
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Howard, Jacob Merritt, 1805-1871 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1805-07-10
Death date	1871-04-02
Place of birth	Shaftsbury (Vt.)
Place of death	Detroit (Mich.)
Affiliation	Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives United States. Congress. Senate United States. Congress. House Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Whig Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupation	Legislators Lawyers
Found in	NUCMC data from Duke Univ. Libr., Durham for His Reconstruction Report to the Committee (Howard, Jacob Merritt, 1805-1871; U.S. representative and senator, member of Joint Committee on Reconstruction, of Detroit, Mich.) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed February 8, 2024: (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.)
Associated language	eng