HOWARD, JACOB M.
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(1805-1871), was a member of the Michigan Legislature in 1838 and represented that State in the U.S. Congress from 1841 to 1843. He drafted the first Republican platform in 1854 and gave the party its name. He was a U.S. Senator from 1862 to 1871.
By John Franklin Jameson
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