William A. Howard Biography


	This biography appears on page 861 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	WILLIAM A. HOWARD, sixth territorial governor of Dakota, was a 
native of Vermont, where he was born in 1812. He was a graduate of 
Middlebury College. Removed to Detroit and served in congress from 1856 
to 1863; was afterward postmaster of Detroit. He was appointed governor 
in 1878 and died in office in 1880.