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About William R. Howley
- William Richard Howley (July 6, 1875 – April 18, 1941) was a lawyer and politician in Newfoundland.
- He represented St.
- George's from 1900 to 1904 and Placentia and St.
- Mary's from 1909 to 1913 in the Newfoundland House of Assembly.The son of James Patrick Howley and Elizabeth Jane Firth, he was born in St.
- John's and was educated at St.
- Bonaventure's College there.
- He studied law with Robert Kent and was called to the Newfoundland bar in 1898.
- He became the senior partner in Howley and Herder in 1909.
- Howley was named King's Counsel in 1911.Elected as a Liberal in 1900, he joined the Conservatives after a dispute with Robert Bond.
- He was defeated when he ran for reelection as a Conservative in 1904.
- Howley ran unsuccessfully as a People's Party candidate in 1908 but was elected in 1909.
- He ran unsuccessfully for reelection in St.
- John's East in 1913.
- In 1928, he was named Minister of Justice in the Newfoundland cabinet but failed in his bid for election later that year.
- When responsible government was suspended in 1934, Howley served as Commissioner of Justice and Attorney General in the Commission of Government.
- From 1936 to 1938, he served as vice-chair of the Commission.
- He was later named registrar for the Supreme Court.Howley married Mary Ryan in 1905 and the couple had two daughters.
- He died in St.
- John's at the age of 65.
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