Perry Howard

This article is about the nineteenth-century politician. For his son, the twentieth-century lawyer, see Perry Wilbon Howard II.

Perry Wilbon Howard (c. 1835–1907) was an American blacksmith,^[1] and a state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Holmes County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1872 to 1875; and served on the county board of supervisors.^[1][2]

Howard, c. 1874

He was born in c. 1835 into slavery in South Carolina, and was brought to Mississippi before the American Civil War. His children became doctors, an attorney, and teachers.^[1] Noted lawyer, Perry Wilbon Howard II was one of his sons.^[2]

He was a delegate from Mississippi at the 1924 Republican National Convention^[3] and 1928 Republican National Convention.^[4]

See also

• African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900