Volney E. Howard

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Volney Erskine Howard (October 22, 1809 - May 14, 1889) was an American lawyer, statesman, and jurist. He represented Texas's District 2 in the U.S. Congress from 1849 to 1853. He was the District Attorney of Los Angeles, California from 1861 to 1870, and a superior court judge beginning in 1879. He served only one term, due to the ill health that also forced him to refuse a potential nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Howard commenced law practice in Brandon, Mississippi. He was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1836; reporter of the supreme court of the State of Mississippi; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress and editor of the Mississippian.

Howard died in Santa Monica, California and is buried at Fort Hill, Los Angeles, California. Howard County, Texas was named in his honor.

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• Column (approx. 2,000 words) on Howard as major-general in charge of state efforts to crush vigilantes' control of San Francisco in 1856
• Volney E. Howard at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Volney Erskine Howard from the Handbook of Texas Online

Preceded by Timothy Pilsbury

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 2nd congressional district 1849–1853

Succeeded by Peter H. Bell