Elias Howell
American politician
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| Intro | American politician | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Politician | |
| Work field | Politics | |
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| Birth | 1 January 1792, New Jersey, U.S.A. | |
| Death | 1 May 1844Newark, Licking County, Ohio, U.S.A. (aged 52 years) | |
| Politics: | National Republican Party |
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Elias Howell (1792 – May 1844) was a United States Representative from Ohio.
Born in New Jersey in 1792, he attended the public schools and in 1819 moved to Newark, Ohio. He was a member of the Ohio Senate from 1830 to 1832 and was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1835 to March 3, 1837. He was not a candidate for renomination, and died near Newark, Ohio in 1844. Howell's son, James Bruen Howell, was a U.S. Senator from Iowa.