| LC control no. | n 88071902 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Howe, Timothy O. (Timothy Otis), 1816-1883 |
| Variant(s) | Howe, T. O. (Timothy Otis), 1816-1883 Howe, Senator (Timothy Otis), 1816-1883 |
| Birth date | 1816-02-16 |
| Death date | 1883-03-25 |
| Place of birth | Livermore (Me.) |
| Place of death | Kenosha (Wis.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers Judges |
| Found in | Bundy, J.M. Are we a nation? 1870: t.p. (Senator Howe, of Wisconsin) MoSU-L/NLT files (hdg.: Howe, Timothy Otis, 1816-1883; usage: Timothy O. Howe, T.O. Howe) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed December 18, 2023: (Howe, Timothy Otis, a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Livermore, Androscoggin County, Maine, February 24, 1816; attended the common schools and graduated from the Maine Wesleyan Seminary; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1839 and commenced practice in Readfield, Maine; moved to Wisconsin in 1845 and settled in Green Bay; judge of the circuit court and supreme court justice of Wisconsin 1850-1853, when he resigned; unsuccessful Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1856; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1860; reelected in 1866 and 1872 and served from March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1879; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Claims (Thirty-ninth through Forty-second Congresses), Committee on the Library (Thirty-ninth Congress, Forty-first Congress, Forty-third through Forty-fifth Congresses); served as a commissioner for the purchase of the Black Hills territory from the Indians; delegate to the International Monetary Conference held at Paris in 1881; appointed Postmaster General in the Cabinet of President Chester Arthur in 1881, and served until his death in Kenosha, Wis., on March 25, 1883; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Green Bay, Wis.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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