Jack Howman

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Jack Howman

| honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=ZAR|GLM|ID}}

| birth_name = John Hartley Howman

| birth_date = {{birth date|1919|08|11|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Selukwe, Southern Rhodesia

| death_date = {{death date and age|2000|02|02|1919|08|11|df=yes}}

| death_place = Johannesburg, South Africa

| party = Rhodesian Front

| spouse = Moira Maidman

| image = John Hartley (Jack) Howman (Right).png

| caption = Jack Howman, right, attending a conference before signing of the U.D.I.

}}

John Hartley "Jack" Howman {{Post-nominals|country=ZAR|GLM|ID}} (August 11, 1919 – 2 February 2002) was a Rhodesian politician, under the Rhodesian Front, and a signatory of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence,{{cite book |last=White |first=Matthew C. |title=Smith of Rhodesia: A Pictorial Biography |publisher=Don Nelson |year=1978 |isbn=978-0909238360 |location=Cape Town |page=45}} and served in the Rhodesian Cabinet.

Jack Howman served in various cabinet positions, even holding three ministerial positions in 1963, in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Local Government, and African Education.{{Cite journal |last=Chambwe |first=Tawanda Valentine |date=February 2020 |title=A History of African Entrepreneurship in Southern Rhodesia, 1944 – 1979 |url=https://scholar.ufs.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/fbc0d0c6-e80c-47ee-8fab-c008e563e521/content |journal=Centre for African Studies at the University of the Free State |pages=104, 105}} While serving as the Minister of Justice and Internal Affairs he debated in the Southern Rhodesian Parliament on several bills, such as the Land Apportionment Bill on the 18th August 1963. He was considered one of Ian Smith's closest friends,{{Cite web |title=Plumtree School – Jack Howman Biography |url=http://oldprunitian.rhodesiana.com/op11-006.html |access-date=2018-03-05 |website=oldprunitian.rhodesiana.com}} and accompanied him to the Gibraltar Conferences in 1966 and 1968.

Howman also served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs,{{Cite book |last=Howman |first=H. Roger G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_kFEAQAAIAAJ |title=H.R.G. Howman on Provincialisation in Rhodesia, 1968-1969, and Rational and Irrational Elements |date=1985 |publisher=African Studies Centre |isbn=978-0-902993-16-7 |pages=11 |language=en}} Minister of Tourism and Information,{{cite news |date=26 December 1968 |title=Terrorists' losses 160 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CQNFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uroMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4363,52166&dq=jack-howman&hl=en |accessdate=3 July 2011 |work=The Windsor Star |page=6}} Minister of African Education, and Minister of External Affairs and Defence.https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79-00891A000700060001-0.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}