Huron County MI Archives Obituaries.....Nugent, Howard May 29, 1952
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Rep. Nugent, 72, Veteran Huron Lawmaker, Dies
Served 4 terms as Speaker of Michigan Assembly

Bad Axe, May 30 -- State Representative Howard Nugent, Republican of Huron 
County, died Thurs night in Hubbard Memorial Hospital after an illness of 17 
days of heart disease. He was 72 years old. Mr. Nugent's death was unexpected as 
he apparently was recovering. He said Thurs afternoon he felt well. He died 
shortly after suffering another attack. First stricken May 12, he was in the 
hospital since then. 

Funeral services are set tentatively for Monday at Ubly, but other arrangements 
have not been made. Remains will be in the family residence this afternoon.

Mr Nugent served four terms as Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives 
from 1939 to 1947, longer than any other man in the history of the State. Highly 
popular with his Republican colleagues, it was considered  [.] in that he would 
have been [.] to a fifth term but he [.] the race in 1946 for the Republican 
nomination for Lieutenant Governor, giving up almost certain re-election as 
State Representative from Huron County. He was defeated by a narrow margin in 
the primary election in a field of five candidates.

Mr. Nugent is survived by his widow, Alice, whom he married in 1906; four sons, 
William, Ralph and Percy Nugent, all of Bad Axe and Leon Nugent, Cadillac, MI; 
two daughters, Mrs. William Yageman and Mrs. Henry Fox, both of Detroit; and a 
sister, Mrs. Anthony Goeller, Long Island NY.


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