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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyBenjamin Franklin HOWELL
(1844-1933)
HOWELL, Benjamin Franklin,
a Representative from New Jersey; born in Cedarville, Cumberland
County, N.J., January 27, 1844; attended the common schools; was
graduated from Fort Edward Institute, New York; enlisted in the
Twelfth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, in 1862 and served until
the close of the war; engaged in mercantile pursuits in South
Amboy, N.J., 1865; surrogate of Middlesex County 1882-1892;
president of the People’s National Bank of New Brunswick and
vice president of the New Brunswick Savings Institution; elected as
a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the seven succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1911); chairman, Committee on
Immigration and Naturalization (Fifty-eighth through Sixty-first
Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the
Sixty-second Congress; delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1896; member of the United States Immigration
Commission 1907-1910; died at New Brunswick, N.J., February 1,
1933; interment in Christ Cemetery, South Amboy, N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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