Charles R. Howell

Howell was born in Trenton, New Jersey on April 23, 1904. He attended the Trenton Public Schools and graduated from Hoosac School in Hoosick, New York. He was a student at Princeton University in 1923 and 1924 and took special courses at the University of Pennsylvania in 1936 and 1937.

Howell worked as an insurance broker in Trenton from 1928 to 1954. He was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1944, reelected in 1945, and served until 1947.

Howell was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the two succeeding Congresses, serving in office from January 3, 1949 to January 3, 1955. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1954, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate, losing by a narrow margin to Clifford P. Case. He was appointed New Jersey State Commissioner of Banking and Insurance in February 1955, serving until March 1, 1969. He was a delegate-at-large to the 1956 Democratic National Convention.

Howell died in Trenton on July 5, 1973. His remains were cremated, and the ashes scattered at sea off Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey.

• United States Congress. "Charles R. Howell (id: H000858)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Charles Robert Howell at The Political Graveyard
• Charles Robert Howell at Find a Grave
• A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Charles R. Howell" is available at the Internet Archive