Milford W. Howard

Biography

Milford Wriarson Howard was a two-term Congressman from Alabama. Born near Rome in Floyd County, Georgia, Howard studied law in Cedartown, Ga. but moved to to Fort Payne, Alabama in 1880 and was admitted to practice law before the Alabama bar the following year. He was elected as a Populist to the 54th and 55th Congresses (March 4, 1895 - March 3, 1899) but did not seek a third term, resuming the practice of law in Fort Payne in 1904. In 1918, he moved to Montrose, near Los Angeles, to engage in literary pursuits. "The Bishop of the Ozarks" was a product of that era. He died in Los Angeles, on December 28, 1937 and was interred in His Shrine Chapel, atop Lookout Mountain, near Mentone, Ala.