Charles Bowen Howry

Howry's former residence in Washington, D.C.

Charles Bowen Howry (May 14, 1844 - July 20, 1928) was a Mississippi attorney and politician, and a judge of the United States Court of Claims.

Howry was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War, from 1862 to 1865. After the war, he received an LL.B. from the University of Mississippi in 1867.

Private practice, Oxford, Mississippi, 1867-1874, 1878-1893. Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, 1880-1884. U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, 1885-1889. Assistant U.S. attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, 1893-1897.

Federal Judicial Service: Nominated by President Grover Cleveland to a seat on the Court of Claims. Commissioned on January 28, 1897, Howry retired from active service on March 15, 1915. Although he technically continued to serve in senior status until his death, he returned to private practice in 1915, and was chairman of the Board of Arbitration for New York City, 1916, and special counsel to the U.S. Department of Labor from 1918 to 1919.

Sources

• Federal Judicial Center entry on Charles Bowen Howry

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Name	Howry, Charles Bowen
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Date of birth	May 14, 1844
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Date of death	July 20, 1928
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