Elias Howell (August 17, 1785 – May 12, 1844) was a one-term United States Representative from Ohio from 1835 to 1837.
Born in New Jersey in 1785, 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.[1] Howell's son, James Bruen Howell, was a U.S. Senator from Iowa.
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- ^ Elias Howell
- United States Congress. "Elias Howell (id: H000861)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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