Edgar Howard

(1858-1951) lived in Papillion, Columbus, and Lincoln. Newspaper publisher, editor, and politician, as a U.S. Congressman from 1923 to 1935, he supported legislation in agriculture, aid to Native Americans, and the insuring of bank deposits, and was instrumental in passage of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 which revised the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 and reinforced the importance of tribal structure; was editor and publisher, and served one term as Nebraska lieutenant governor. Consult Omaha World Herald Magazine, October 9, 1949, p. C-5 and Who Was Who in America, Vol 3 (1960) 421 and Dictionary of American Biography, Sup 5 (1977) 318-319.

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