Elias Howell
Elias Howell 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.
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.