Everette Burgess Howard | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 1st district | |
| In office March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1921 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas Alberter Chandler |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Alberter Chandler |
| In office March 4, 1923 – March 3, 1925 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas Alberter Chandler |
| Succeeded by | Samuel J. Montgomery |
| In office March 4, 1927 – March 3, 1929 | |
| Preceded by | Samuel J. Montgomery |
| Succeeded by | Charles O'Connor |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 19, 1873 Morgantown, Kentucky |
| Died | April 3, 1950 (aged 76) Midland, Texas |
| Citizenship |  United States |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Hollis Hope Howard |
| Children | Paxton Howard |
| Profession | newspaper printer brick manufacturer oil producer politician |
Everette Burgess Howard (September 19, 1873 – April 3, 1950) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.
Born in Morgantown, Kentucky, Howard was the son of Addison A. and Addie P. Harreld Howard. He attended the public schools, and learned the art of printing and engaged in newspaper work in Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Missouri. He married Hollis Hope in Missouri on December 4, 1895, and they had one son, Paxton.[1]
Howard moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1905 and engaged in the manufacture of brick and in the production of oil and gas. He served as a member of the State board of public affairs from 1911 to 1915, and as State auditor of Oklahoma from 1915 to 1919.[2]
Elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress, as a Representative from Oklahoma, serving from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1921. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress, he was elected to the Sixty-eighth Congress. and served from March 4, 1923, to March 3, 1925. Not a candidate for renomination in 1924, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator. He was then elected to the Seventieth Congress as Representative and served from March 4, 1927, to March 3, 1929.[3] He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress.
Returning to his private business, Howard engaged in the production of oil and gas in Oklahoma and Texas.
Howard died in Midland, Texas, on April 3, 1950. He is interred at Memorial Park, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.[4]
