Benjamin Chew Howard was a Maryland politician and lawyer. After serving on the city council of Baltimore in 1820 and in both houses of the Maryland legislature, he was a Representative in the United States Congress from 1829 to 1833, and from 1835 to 1839. He was thereafter the fifth reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1843 to 1860.
portrait by Henry Inman
Jane Gilmor Howard, author of Fifty Years in a Maryland Kitchen
John Eager Howard was an American soldier and politician from Maryland. He was elected as governor of the state in 1788, and served three one-year terms. He also was elected to the Continental Congress, the Congress of the Confederation, the United States Senate, and the Maryland Senate. In the 1816 presidential election, Howard received 22 electoral votes for vice president on the Federalist Party ticket with Rufus King; the ticket lost to Democratic-Republicans James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins in a landslide.
Oil painting of John Eager Howard by Charles Willson Peale (1823)
John Eager Howard in Uniform, painted in 1782 by Charles Willson Peale
Peggy Chew Howard and John Eager Howard Jr., portrait by Charles Willson Peale