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Joseph Howe

-- The Indictment

-- January 1, 1835 Letter

-- Mr. Howe's Defense

-- Howe and Responsible Government

-- Letter to the Electors - 1851

-- Letter to the Electors - 1857 (image only)

-- Portraits

Who was Joseph Howe?

HOWE, JOSEPH, printer, journalist
Born: December 13, 1804 at Halifax
Son of John and Mary (Edes) Howe, Loyalists
Married: Catherine Susan Ann McNab on February 2, 1828
Died: June 1, 1873 at Halifax
Non-political career:

Editor of the Novascotian, 1828-1841

Joint editor with William Annand of Morning Chronicle, 1844-1846

Political career: Member for

Halifax County (1836-1851)
Cumberland County(1851 - 1855)
- His seat was declared vacant on February 24, 1851. An undue election was declared and he was re-elected in the March 22 by-election
Windsor Township (1856 - 1859)
Hants County, South Division (1860 - 1863)
Member of Parliament for Hants (1867 - May, 1873 - resigned)

Political Positions Held:

Speaker of the House of Assembly (February 3, 1841 - January 26, 1843 - resigned)

Executive Council without portfolio (October 6, 1840 - December 21, 1843)

Provincial Secretary and Clerk of Council (February 2, 1848 - April 4, 1854)

Chairman of the Railway Commission (April 4, 1854 - April 9, 1857)

Provincial Secretary (February 10, 1860 - June 5, 1863)

Premier (August 3, 1860 - June 5, 1863)

Imperial Fisheries Commissioner (1863 - 1866)

President of the Privy Council (January 19, 1869 - November 19, 1869)

Secretary of State for the Provinces (November 16, 1869 - May, 1873)

Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (May 10, 1873 - death)

Major Accomplishments

Defense of Freedom of the Press stemming from publishing a letter in the Novascotian on January 1, 1835
Major role in winning Responsible Government for Nova Scotia in 1848

Political Affiliation:

Reformer and Anti-Confederate (1836 - 1869)
Confederate and Liberal Conservative (1869 - 1873)
- He accepted office in Sir John A. Macdonald's cabinet on offer of "better terms" in 1869.

For a more detailed biography, please review the article on Joseph Howe in:
The Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

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