Colonel John Eager Howard

1752 - 1827  (75 years)    Has 2 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	John Eager Howard
  Prefix	Colonel
  Birth	04 Jun 1752
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 Oct 1827
  Person ID	I369182	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2010

  
  

  Father	Cornelius Howard
  Mother	Ruth Eager
  Family ID	F299484	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Oswald Chew,   b. 1760   d. 1824 (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	1787
  Children	1. George Howard,   b. 21 Nov 1789, Jennings House d. 02 Aug 1846, Woodstock, Maryland (Age 56 years)   2. Benjamin Chew Howard,   b. 05 Nov 1791, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA d. 06 Mar 1872, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F146112	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2010

  
  

• Notes

  Maryland Governor Howard County, Maryland, is named for him. Howard was an Episcopalian, and a Brother of a Baltimore lodge of Freemasonry. A captain, who rose to the rank of colonel in the Continental Army, he fought at the Battle of White Plains and in the Battle of Monmouth. He was awarded a silver medal by Congress for his leadership at the Battle of Cowpens, during which he commanded the 3rd Maryland Regiment, Continental Army. Following his army service, he held several political positions: member of the Continental Congress of 1788; Governor of Maryland for three one-year terms, 1789 through 1791; State Senator from 1791 through 1795; Presidential Elector in 1792; thereafter, he joined the Federalist Party and served in the 4th Congress from November 30, 1796, through 1797 as a United States Senator for the remainder of the term of Richard Potts, who had resigned; and was elected for a Senate term of his own in 1797, which included the 5th Congress, the 6th Congress of 1799-1801 during which he was President pro tempore, and the 7th Congress, serving until March 3, 1803. After 1803, he returned to Baltimore, where he avoided elected office but continued in public service and philanthropy as a leading citizen. In the 1816 presidential election, he received 22 electoral votes for Vice President as the running mate of Federalist Rufus King, losing to James Monroe and Governor Daniel Tompkins. No formal Federalist nomination had been made, and it is not clear whether Howard, who was only one of several Federalists who received electoral votes for Vice President, actively ran for the office. Although he was offered the Secretaryship of War in the Administration of President George Washington, he declined it, as well as a 1798 commission to Brigadier General during the preparations for the coming Quasi-War with France. He developed the property "Waverley" at Marriottsville, Maryland for George. George eventually returned there as Governor himself forty years after his father's term, and four years after his death.[citation needed] Their second son, Benjamin Chew Howard, was also a prominent politician in Maryland, serving four terms in the U.S. Congress. John Eager Howard is buried at the Old Saint Paul's Cemetery, in Baltimore, where in 1904, an equestrian statue of him by the eminent French sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet was erected. Howard is one of several historic Marylanders mentioned in the state song Maryland, My Maryland