{{Short description|American judge}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Edward H. Howell | image = | image_size = | caption = | office = 76th Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court | term_start = 1970 | term_end = 1980 | appointer = Tom McCall | predecessor = William C. Perry | successor = J. R. Campbell | office2 = Judge of the Oregon Tax Court | term_start2 = 1965 | term_end2 = 1970 | appointer2 = Mark Hatfield | predecessor2 = Peter M. Gunnar | successor2 = Carlisle B. Roberts | birth_date = January 1, 1915 | birth_place = Portland, Oregon, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1994|3|29|1915|1|1|mf=y}} | death_place = Salem, Oregon, U.S. | party = | spouse = Jane Howell }} '''Edward H. Howell''' (January 1, 1915 – March 29, 1994) was an American jurist in the state of Oregon. The Oregon native and Army veteran served on the Oregon Tax Court and the Oregon Supreme Court.
==Early life== Edward Howell was born in Portland, Oregon, on January 1, 1915.<ref name=obit>Edward H. Howell. ''The Oregonian'', April 3, 1994.</ref> The family later moved to The Dalles, Oregon, where Edward graduated from The Dalles High School.<ref name=obit/> He then went to college, followed by law school. Howell graduated in 1940 from Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon.<ref name=obit/> Then with the onset of World War II he joined the United States Army where he served as an intelligence officer in the Aleutian Islands.<ref name=obit/> He married Jane Howell and they had three daughters.<ref name=obit/>
==Judicial career== In 1949, Howell began his judicial career when he was appointed to Oregon's 11th Judicial Career.<ref name=obit/>{{Clarify|date=January 2023|reason="appointed to Oregon’s 11th Judicial Career" What does that mean?}} On February 19, 1965, Howell was appointed by Governor Mark Hatfield to the Oregon Tax Court to replace Peter M. Gunnar who had resigned.<ref name=tax>[https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Documents/elections/history-officials.pdf Oregon Blue Book: Earliest Authorities in Oregon - Tax Court Judges of Oregon.] Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved on January 31, 2008.</ref> He served on this single-judge court until resigning on May 31, 1970.<ref name=tax/> On June 1, 1970, he was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court by Governor Tom McCall to replace William C. Perry who had resigned from the bench.<ref name=OSC>[https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Documents/elections/history-officials.pdf Oregon Blue Book: Earliest Authorities in Oregon - Supreme Court Justices of Oregon.] Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved on January 31, 2008.</ref><ref name=gov>[https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/Pages/records/governors_guides.aspx Oregon State Archives: Oregon Governor's Records Guides.] Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved on January 31, 2008.</ref> Howell was elected to a full six-year term later in 1970 and then re-elected in 1976.<ref name=OSC/> He resigned from the court on November 30, 1980.<ref name=OSC/>
Edward H. Howell died in Salem, Oregon, on March 29, 1994, of cancer and was buried at St. Peter Catholic Cemetery in The Dalles, Oregon.<ref name=obit/>
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==External links== *[http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=62DBD277-E736-B717-F994380E2DA145A2 The Oregon History Project: Christmas Valley Lodge, 1962]
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