Benjamin Franklin Howey

Benjamin Franklin Howey

Infobox Congressman
name = Benjamin Franklin Howey


width =
state = New Jersey
district = 4th
party = Republican
term = March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885
preceded = Henry S. Harris (D)
succeeded = James N. Pidcock (D)
date of birth = March 17, 1828
place of birth = Pleasant Meadows, New Jersey, USA
date of death = February 6, 1895
place of death = Columbia, New Jersey, USA
spouse =
profession = Politician, Lawyer
religion =
footnotes =

Benjamin Franklin Howey (March 17, 1828 - February 6, 1895), was a American Republican politician who represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1883 to 1885.

He was born in Pleasant Meadows, near Swedesboro, Gloucester County, New Jersey. He engaged in business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a flour and grain commission merchant in 1847 and later in quarrying and manufacturing slate; served as captain of Company G, Thirty-first Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, from September 3, 1862, to June 26, 1863; sheriff of Warren County, New Jersey, from November 13, 1878, to November 15, 1881.

Howey was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885.

He died in Columbia, New Jersey, and is interred in Trinity Church Cemetery in Swedesboro.

External links

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* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howells-howey.html#R9M0J178H Benjamin Franklin Howey] at The Political Graveyard
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6904386 Benjamin Franklin Howey] at Find A Grave


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