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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaWilliam Schley HOWARD
(1875-1953)
HOWARD, William Schley,
(cousin of Augustus O. Bacon), a Representative from Georgia; born
in Kirkwood, De Kalb County, Ga., June 29, 1875; attended
Neel’s Academy; was a page in the State house of
representatives in 1888 and 1889; calendar clerk of the Georgia
house of representatives in 1890 and 1891; private secretary to
United States Senator Patrick Walsh of Georgia from August 8, 1894,
to February 18, 1895; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1897
and commenced practice in Wrightsville, Ga.; enlisted in the Third
Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, on July 2, 1898, and served
as sergeant during the Spanish-American War; returned to De Kalb
County and resumed the practice of his profession; member of the
State house of representatives in 1900 and 1901; solicitor general
of the Stone Mountain judicial circuit 1905-1911; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1911-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate in 1918 for
nomination for the United States Senate; resumed the practice of
law in Atlanta, Ga., until his death there on August 1, 1953;
interment in Decatur Cemetery, Decatur, Ga.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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