Charles Benjamin Howard

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}}

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| honorific-prefix = The Hon.

| name = Charles Benjamin Howard

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| office = Member of Parliament for Sherbrooke

| predecessor = riding created

| successor = Maurice Gingues

| term_start = October 1925

| term_end = January 1940

| office2 = Senator for Wellington, Quebec

| appointed2 = William Lyon Mackenzie King

| predecessor2 = Albert Joseph Brown

| successor2 = Paul Desruisseaux

| term_start2 = 8 February 1940

| term_end2 = 25 March 1964

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1885|9|27}}

| birth_place = Smith's Mills, Quebec

| death_date = {{death date and age|1964|3|25|1885|9|27|df=yes}}

| death_place = Sherbrooke, Quebec

| nationality =

| spouse=1) Alberta May Campbell
m. 1 June 1908{{cite book | title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide | first=A.L. | last=Normandin | orig-year=1936| year=1940}}
3) Simone Lemieux

| party=Liberal

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| occupation = businessman, industrialist, lumber merchant

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Charles Benjamin Howard (27 September 1885 – 25 March 1964) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Smith's Mills, Quebec in Stanstead County and became a businessman, industrialist and lumber merchant.

Howard attended high school at Sherbrooke then Stanstead Wesleyan College. In 1923, he assumed the presidency of his family's lumber operation, B.C. Howard Company, following his father's death. In 1950 and 1951, Howard was mayor of Sherbrooke.

He was first elected to Parliament at the Sherbrooke riding in the 1925 general election then re-elected in 1926, 1930 and 1935. After completing his term in the 18th Canadian Parliament, Howard left the House of Commons and was appointed to the Senate for the Wellington, Quebec division.

On 25 March 1964, Howard died at his Sherbrooke residence shortly after completing a visit to Mexico. He remained a Senator at that time.{{cite news | title=Senator C.B. Howard / Served 39 Years in Two Houses of Parliament | newspaper=The Globe and Mail | date=26 March 1964 | page=41 | author=The Canadian Press | author-link=The Canadian Press }}