Elias Howell

{{No footnotes|date=October 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}} {{infobox officeholder |name=Elias Howell |image= |state1=Ohio |district1={{ushr|Ohio|12|12th}} |term_start1=March 4, 1835 |term_end1=March 3, 1837 |preceded1=Robert Mitchell |succeeded1=Alexander Harper |office2=Member of the Ohio Senate |term2=1830-1832 |party=Anti-Jacksonian |birth_date={{birth date|1785|8|17}} |death_date={{death date and age|1844|5|12|1785|8|17}} |birth_place=New Jersey |death_place=Newark, Ohio }} '''Elias Howell''' (August 17, 1785{{spnd}}May 12, 1844) was an American politician who served one-term as a United States representative from Ohio from 1835 to 1837.

== Biography == Born in New Jersey in 1785, he attended the public schools and in 1819 moved to Newark, Ohio.

=== Political career === He was a member of the Ohio Senate from 1830 to 1832 and was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1835, to March 3, 1837.

=== Later career and death === He was not a candidate for renomination, and died near Newark, Ohio in 1844. Howell's son, James Bruen Howell, was a U.S. Senator from Iowa.

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box |state= Ohio |district= 12 |before= Robert Mitchell |after= Alexander Harper |years= March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837}} {{s-end}}

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