James Leland Howard

Background

James L. Howard was born in Windsor, Vermont, the son of Reverend Leland Howard.

Career

He received an academic education and started working as a clerk in New York at the age of fifteen. In 1838, he moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where he started working in the manufacturing business on his own account in 1841, with his partner Hurlburt, he manufacturing carriage and saddle hardware. They soon added the manufacture of furnishings for railway cars.

He was also president of the Hartford City Gas Light Company, director in the Phoenix National Bank, the Traveler’s Insurance Company, the Hartford County Fire Insurance Company, the Retreat for the Insane, the Farmington River Power Company, and several other manufacturing companies.

Additionally, he was on the board of directors of the New York & New England Railroad Company. The Howard & Company still exists under the name of 1846.

Howard was married, June 1, 1842, to Mission Anna Gilbert, daughter of Joseph B. Gilbert of Hartford. He was an unsuccessful candidate to become mayor of Hartford in 1878 and 1880.

In the autumn of 1886, Howard was elected Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut.

He served for one two-year period alongside the governor Phineas C. Lounsbury from January 7, 1887 to January 10, 1889.

Politics

Howard was originally a member of the Whig Party, and naturally became a member of the Republicans when that party was formed in 1856.

Connections

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