Jacob M. Howard
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United States Senator from Michigan |
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In office January 17, 1862 – March 4, 1871 |
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| Preceded by | Kinsley S. Bingham |
| Succeeded by | Thomas W. Ferry |
| Attorney General of Michigan | |
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In office 1855–1860 |
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Kinsley S. Bingham Moses Wisner |
| Preceded by | William Hale |
| Succeeded by | Charles Upson |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 1st district |
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In office March 4, 1841 – March 4, 1843 |
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| Preceded by | Isaac E. Crary |
| Succeeded by | Robert McClelland |
| Member of the Michigan House of Representatives | |
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In office 1838 |
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Jacob Merritt Howard July 10, 1805 Shaftsbury, Vermont |
| Died | April 2, 1871 (aged 65) Detroit, Michigan |
| Political party | Republican |
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Whig |
Jacob Merritt Howard (July 10, 1805 – April 2, 1871) was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan during and after the American Civil War.
Howard was born in Shaftsbury, Vermont, and attended the district schools and the academies of Bennington and Brattleboro. He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1830 and then studied law. He moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1832 and was admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice in Detroit. He was city attorney of Detroit in 1834 and a member of the Michigan State House of Representatives in 1838.
Howard was elected as a Whig to the United States House of Representatives for the Twenty-seventh Congress, serving March 4, 1841–March 4, 1843. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1842. He helped draw up the platform of the first Republican Party convention held in Jackson, Michigan, in 1854. He was Michigan Attorney General from 1855-1861.
Howard was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1861 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Kinsley S. Bingham. He was reelected in 1865 and in total served from January 1862, to March 1871. He was chairman of the Committee on Pacific Railroads in the Thirty-eighth through Forty-first Congresses.
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