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Excerpt from Michigan Contested Election Case: Howard Vs; Cooper, Argument of Contestant The whole of the testimony relates to two towns and five wards, and two of these wards are only referred to incidentally; so we may assume, with substantial accuracy, that we are only concerned in this investiga tion with two organized towns, and three wards of the city of Detroit. The testimony is far from being voluminous, and as it all relates to these five voting places, and as all the statutes of Michigan bearing Upon the subject are contained in a single chapter, it would seem your task may be made comparatively easy, and I hepe satisfactory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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William Howard was born at Hinesburg, Vermont, in 1813. He was the son of Dan and Esther (Spencer) Howard. He was descended from John Howard who settled in Duxbury, Massachussets, before 1643 and later was one of the proprietors of Bridgewater.
At the age of fourteen, William went to Albion, N. Y. , to learn cabinet making. From 1832 to 1835 he prepared for college in Wyoming Academy at Wyoming, N. Y. He graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1839.
After teaching school in Genesee County, N. Y. , during the winter of 1839-40, he removed to Detroit. Here, while teaching mathematics in the branch of the University of Michigan, he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1842. As was the case with many of his contemporaries, his political interests took precedence over his legal ones. By 1852 he had risen to the rank of chairman of the Whig State Central Committee. In 1854 he joined the Republican party, organized in Jackson on July 6. In the same year he was elected to the United States House of Representatives, defeating David Stuart, one of the most popular Democrats of Detroit.
His congressional career, which came to a close in 1861, was filled with important events. He was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means for six years. The House appointed him on the committee to investigate the state of affairs in Kansas; he was a member of the Lecompton Committee of Conference and of the Committee of Thirty-three which attempted to find a solution for the difficulties facing the country in the winter of 1860-61. On his retirement from the House, he was appointed postmaster at Detroit, an office which he held for five and a half years. In the spring of 1869 he was offered and declined the position of minister to China. In that year he removed to Grand Rapids to assume the duties of land commissioner of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, and from 1872 to 1878 he served the Northern Pacific in a similar capacity.
In 1877 President Hayes appointed him governor of the Territory of Dakota; he accepted the office in April 1878 and held it until his death. From 1860 to 1866 he was chairman of the Republican state central committee; from 1872 to 1876 he was a member of the Republican National Committee. He was a delegate to the National Conventions of 1868, 1872, and 1876, serving in each year as chairman of the state delegation. It is believed that it was his influence in 1876 that caused the Michigan delegation to vote for Hayes, thus starting a definite trend toward the latter's nomination. Howard died in Washington, D. C.
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He married Ellen Jane (Birchard) Howard in Detroit on March 1, 1841.
