Benjamin Franklin Howey
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Benjamin Franklin Howey (March 17, 1828 - February 6, 1895), was a Republican Congressman to the Forty-eighth United States Congress (1883-1885).
He was born in Pleasant Meadows, near Swedesboro, Gloucester County, New Jersey. He engaged in business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a flour and grain commission merchant in 1847 and later in quarrying and manufacturing slate; served as captain of Company G, Thirty-first Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, from September 3, 1862, to June 26, 1863; sheriff of Warren County, New Jersey, from November 13, 1878, to November 15, 1881. He died in Columbia, New Jersey, and is interred in Trinity Church Cemetery in Swedesboro.
This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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| Preceded by Henry S. Harris |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 4th congressional district 1883-1885 |
Succeeded by James N. Pidcock |
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