Benjamin Franklin Howey

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Early life and career

Howey 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. He served as captain of Company G, Thirty-first Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, from September 3, 1862, to June 26, 1863, and as sheriff of Warren County, New Jersey, from November 13, 1878, to November 15, 1881.

Congress

Howey was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885.

Death

He died in Columbia, New Jersey, and is interred in Trinity Church Cemetery in Swedesboro.

External links

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