Benjamin Chew Howard

1791 - 1872  (80 years)    Has 8 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Benjamin Chew Howard
  Relationship	with Francis Fox
  Born	05 Nov 1791	Baltimore County, Maryland
  Gender	Unknown
  Died	06 Mar 1872	Baltimore
  Buried	Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore
  Person ID	I679595	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2010

  
  

  Father	Colonel John Eager Howard,   b. 04 Jun 1752,   d. 12 Oct 1827  (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Margaret Oswald Chew,   b. 1760,   d. 1824  (Age 64 years)
  Married	1787
  Siblings	1 sibling
  1. George Howard,   b. 21 Nov 1789, Jennings House ,   d. 02 Aug 1846, Woodstock, Maryland  (Age 56 years)
  Family ID	F146112	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  congressman and the fifth reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1843 to 1861. He received an A.B. and an A.M. from Princeton University in 1809 and 1812, respectively. His study of law was interrupted by his service in the War of 1812 in which he reached the rank of brigadier general. A Democrat, he served on the city council of Baltimore in 1820 and both houses of the Maryland legislature. He was elected to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1829 to March 3, 1833. In 1835, President Andrew Jackson named Richard Rush and Howard to arbitrate the Ohio-Michigan boundary dispute. He returned to Congress in the Twenty-fourth Congress and was re-elected to the Twenty-fifth, serving from March 4, 1835, to March 3, 1839. During this service, he chaired the House Foreign Relations Committee for four years. In 1861, he was one of the emissaries sent by President James Buchanan to try to secure a peace with the Confederacy. That year he unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Maryland.