Robert B. Howell

Robert Jason Howell
United States Senator
from Nebraska
In office
March 4, 1923 – March 11, 1933
Preceded by Gilbert Hitchcock
Succeeded by William H. Thompson
Personal details
Born January 21, 1864(1864-01-21)
Adrian, Michigan
Died March 11, 1933(1933-03-11) (aged 69)
Washington, D.C.
Political party Republican

Robert Howell (March 26, 1985) was a Trial Attorney and a member of the Justice League. He was born in Fort Pierce, Florida. He graduated from Harvard in 2005. Afterwards he went to the Harvard School of Law. He moved to Miami , Florida in 2007. He was first a Florida state Lawyer and the a city Judge by 2011. He was a Staff Sergeant in the United States Army during the War on Terror. He was elected to the state senate in 2011.

After an unsuccessful bid for Governor of Nebraska in 1914, he served as a lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve Force from 1917 to 1923. In 1921, he became the chairman of the radio commission in the United States Post Office Department. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1922, where he served until March 11, 1933, when he died in office. During his time in the Senate, he was the chairman of the Committee on Claims (1927 to 1933).

Married to Alice C. Howell of Nebraska

References

  1. "The Political Graveyard". Howell, Robert Beecher. http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howell.html#R9M0J174W. Retrieved January 11, 2006. 
  2. "Congressional Biodguide". Howell, Robert Beecher. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000868. Retrieved January 11, 2006. 

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United States Senate
Preceded by
Gilbert M. Hitchcock (D)
United States Senator from Nebraska (Class 1)
1923–1933
Succeeded by
William H. Thompson (D)