Allan T. Howe was born in South Cottonwood, Utah, 6 September 1927. He graduated from Granite High School in 1945, received a B.S. degree from the University of Utah in 1952, and was graduated from the University of Utah College of Law in 1954. He was called to serve in the Central Atlantic States Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in July 1949. In 1953, he married the former Marlene Dee.
Howe served as City Attorney of South Salt Lake City and Deputy County Attorney of Salt Lake County after his admission to the Utah Bar Association in 1955. From 1959 to 1964, he served as Field Representative and Administrative Aide to Senator Frank E. Moss of Utah and served as Legal Counsel and Administrative Aide to Utah Governor Calvin L. Rampton from 1965-1968. From 1968-1972, Howe served as Executive Director of the Intergovernmental Economic Unit of the Four Corners Regional Development Commission (Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico). In addition, he was National President of the Young Democrats in 1961.
Howe was elected to the United States House of Representatives on the Democratic ticket in November 1974 and served in the 94th Congress as Congressman from the Second Congressional District of Utah. He was appointed to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Committee on Public Works and Transportation. On February 6, 1976 he announced his intention to run for a second term.
Howe was nominated for his second term by the Utah Democratic Convention on July 12, 1976. The Democratic Party ultimately withdrew its support after Howe's arrest in Salt Lake City. He was convicted on a morals charge in Salt Lake City Court on July 23, 1976 and in Third District Court on August 24, 1976. Howe was unsuccessful in his bid for re-election, losing to Republican Dan Marriott.
The Allan Turner Howe papers (1975-1976) are composed of the material accumulated during his term in the United States House of Representatives, 94th Congress. The collection consists of material generated by the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; the Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Correspondence to and from constituents and casework handled through his three offices in Washington, D. C., Salt Lake City and Cedar City, Utah is included. The collection does not contain any material from his career before election to the 94th Congress, his campaign, his arrest and trial in 1976, or any subsequent events. Also, it contains no office "logs" or diaries and no non-print materials such as photographs or tapes of speeches.
The filing systems used in the three offices have been retained to the greatest possible degree. Constituent and casework files were sampled when the material contained was voluminous or repetitive. Sampled files have been noted in the register and in the files themselves. In all cases, an attempt was made to retain the character of the files.
The collection is divided into the following areas. Boxes 1-18 contain the Legislative Files. Generally the Legislative Files contain all source material and the legislative progress of each bill by the bill number rather than the general subject. The overall order is established by committee and sub-committee, with the files filed under the appropriate sub-committee. Box 15 is a record of all legislation sponsored or co-sponsored by Representative Howe, organized alphabetically by committee.
Boxes 19-35 contain the Subject Files. Boxes 19-28 cover 1975 and 29-35 cover 1976. The Subject Files are organized alphabetically by subject, each file in chronological order. The files contain almost exclusively letters and telegrams from constituents who received individual rather than "form" letter responses from Representative Howe.
Boxes 36-49 were labeled Constituent Letter Files. Boxes 36-42 cover 1975, and boxes 42-49 cover 1976. These files consist primarily of correspondence to Representative Howe on issues of legislation and proposed legislation, but also included constituent opinions on non-legislative matters ranging from the Kaiparowitz Power Plant to Natural Foods. Howe did not separate correspondence on legislative and non-legislative materials. The letters are arranged by subject and letters for each subject are organized alphabetically by the surname of the correspondent. Almost exclusively, constituent letters were answered with a form letter and the drafts of these letters are found in front of the first folder for each subject. Most of the sampling was done in this part of the collection because of the form letters, post card campaigns and similarity of letters received on a given subject.
The Casework Files consist of inquiries made to Howe on behalf of individual constituents to solicit his help in solving a problem of that constituent, or in some cases, a member of the family, for example: Social Security reimbursements, problems with various branches of the armed services, etc. The files are divided by the office that handled the case. Boxes 50-55 are the Washington, D.C. casework files organized alphabetically by general subject with some of the more voluminous cases filed at the end by the surname of the individual case. Boxes 56-58 contain the Salt Lake City office casework files, alphabetical by surname of the individual case rather than by subject. There is no cross-indexing from subject to surname.
Boxes 59-61 contain the files of the Cedar City, Utah office. All matters handled by the Cedar City Field Office are contained here, including casework for individuals that was conducted by this office, general inquiries and correspondence, public relations files and the Field Office files. The casework is organized alphabetically by surname of the case. Next are found general inquiries filed by subject and public relations files consisting primarily of congratulatory messages from the Congressman for various occasions and filed by county. The office files are found at the end. The Cedar City files are interesting because they provide a marked contrast to the Salt Lake City and Washington, D. C., files with their emphasis on personal congratulations and the nature of the cases sent to Cedar City.
Box 62 contains the Washington, D.C, office files. Staff rosters all form letter responses, news releases, etc., are contained in the office files.
Boxes 63-66 consist of a group of files that have been titled Legislative and Casework Miscellaneous. These files were received in separate box from the Legislative or Casework Files and this organization was retained. In most instances, these files are concerned with items of particular interest to Howe's constituents, such as abortion, the Kaiparowitz Power Plant, Utah National Parks, etc., which were never legislative matters before the Congress. They are organized alphabetically by subject. The importance of the Kaiparowitz Power Plant generated quite a bit of material and it is again noted that it is found in boxes 64 and 65 as well as in the 1975 Constituent Letter files, box 39.
There are three areas where material is lacking which should be noted. There is no personal material perse. This is strictly a collection of office materials. Second, the lack of office logs or diaries leaves only the written record and no clues regarding appointments, telephone calls, etc., which might be significant. Third, there is no material on the arrest or trial of Howe.
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The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Processed by Carolyn Dusenbury in 1978.
Agenda, budget, Democratic Caucus rules, Committee rules, Amendments, ranking of majority subcommittee members, committee schedules.
Background and analysis, staff memoranda to Howe, Howe's notes on possible amendments, Amendments, Titles I and II, Amendments, Titles III, IV and V, extention of remarks in
Background material from Ninety-third Congress, Amendments, summary of changes for
Comments of colleagues, reports from Whip and Democratic Study Group, news report,
General statement, memoranda from colleagues, formation of conference committee, interest group reports and remarks, committee report, Amendments, Howe's notes, letter from Secretary of Interior, correspondence, interest group remarks, Subcommittee Print No. 1, BLM draft response, Howe's Notes, Congressional memorandum, committee correspondence, interest group remarks.
Department of Interior comments, Amendments and typescript as amended, staff memoranda to Howe (undated), comments and reports from colleagues, Democratic party positions, Democratic Study Group, Whip advisory.
Background and purpose, full Committee agenda, subcommittee amendments, comments by Department of the Interior, map of contested area, personal correspondence from colleagues, resolution of Illinois General Assembly and attached correspondence, views of Department of Interior, Howe's notes on amendments, staff amendments, technical and correcting amendments, amendments in view of National Park Service views, committee amendments, evaluation report, personal correspondence from Representative Roush, news stories and clippings, interest group comments and correspondence.
Congressional staff reports, interoffice memos to Howe, personal correspondence from colleagues, letter to Calvin L. Rampton, news releases,
Status profiles, news release announcing hearings, correspondence from Andrew Young, Service Club testimony, Whip Advisory, article from
Status profile, purpose and discussion, analysis, changes in existing law, amendments, interoffice memo, Whip advisory, notes on Omnibus Boundary Bill.
Background, summary and impressions, office notes on 1968 bill, news release announcing hearings, and statements of and questions addressed to Department of Interior, Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, Department of Housing and Urban Development; summary of status, Mormon Battalion Trail, Scenic Trails Study Report.
Purpose and background, draft of bill, interest group letters and remarks.
Status profile, statement submitted by Congressman Allan T. Howe, Howe's statement to Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation, Howe's correspondence to colleagues, miscellaneous correspondence.
News release announcing hearings, hearing notes, annual environmental report for Yosemite Park and Curry Co.
Status profile, text, draft, correspondence.
Status profile, text, draft, correspondence.
Status profile, text, correspondence.
Correspondence from colleagues and constituents.
Rationale and purpose, interoffice memoranda, anonymous comments, Department of Interior comments, National Park Service news release, Howe's news release, resolution.
Article from
Background and purpose, hearings, amendments, statements, maps, and correspondence.
Drafts and revisions, comparison of various drafts, amendments, congressional correspondence, comments from Washington state.
Notes and interoffice memorandum, maps, correspondence and remarks from colleagues, correspondence from Department of Agriculture,
interest group letters, reports and remarks.
Hearings announcement, statement of Nathaniel Reid, correspondence from colleagues, remarks and reports from Department of Interior, notes, correspondence and reports from government of state of California about Death Valley National Monument.
General information, U.S. Bureau of Mines reports on minerals in Glacier Bay and Death Valley, regulation of mining action within areas on the national parks system, amendments, correspondence from colleagues.
Military Reservation for Establishment of a Metallurgy Research Center, status profile and text.
Status profile and text.
Text and correspondence.
Interoffice memorandum,
Text, background, analysis, amendments.
Memorandum from Thomas Laughlin, statement of Gilbert G. Stamm Commission on Reclamation, news release with memorandum and support material, interest group letters and comments, personal letters, etc.
Text, memorandum, amendments, and support material pertinent to bill; text of first draft; correspondence from Department of Interior; hearings for Department of Interior; Howe's notes from Hearings; amendments and accompanying material (correspondence, memoranda, agendas, etc.).
Background, analyses, summary, hearings; statement by James Dickson, III, Department of Health, Education and Welfare; statement by Bryan P. Michener, Friends Committee on National Legislation; memorandum and notes; HEW position; correspondence to Howe from colleagues; correspondence from colleagues; interst group comments (Navajo nation and National Congress of American Indians).
Subcommittee memoranda.
Status profile and draft, memorandum, correspondence, interest group comments.
Explanation and background, status profile, subcommittee amendment, Department of Interior and related correspondence on all bills incorporated into the bill.
Explanation and background, staff amendments, subcommittee amendments, subcommittee memoranda, notes, Department of Interior remarks, correspondence with Utah State University, correspondence to colleagues from Water Resources Council, Department of Interior news release.
Status profile; draft statement; memorandum; hearings; statements of Gunn McKay, Utah; Jack Horton, Department of Interior; Daniel Lawrence, Utah Division of Water Resources; Lester Chapoose, Uintah Ouray Tribal Business Committee; amendments and related memorandum; Department of Interior and Office of Management and Budget remarks; interest group remarks; statements and notes about Central Utah Project given before Public Works Subcommittee, Committee on Appropriations.
Status profile; committee memorandum; background and purpose; resolution to bill, Marianas District Legislature; correspondence.
Status profile; correspondence with attached reports and testimony from Jaime Benitez, Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico to the U.S.; interoffice memorandum; correspondence from Roman Hruska; remarks and letters from Puerto Rico; news clippings.
Status profiles, correspondence, resolution.
Status profile and correspondence.
Analyses, assessments, amendments, resolutions, reports and remarks, proponents and opponents, views, correspondence, news releases, and evaluations of cost, etc. "Evaluation of Capital and Operating Costs for Proposed Coal Slurry Pipeline System," prepared for Houston Natural Gas Corporation.
Correspondence, briefs, agenda and statements.
Letters, reports, news releases, text of Howe's speech to Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks.
Correspondence and reports to Howe from Civil Aeronautics Board.
Summary of subject matter, correspondence from Department of Transportation, statement of John W. Snow to Subcommittee on Aviation.
Correspondence including suggested text by Utah Attorney General's office of a letter to Civil Aeronautics Board and related correspondence, and correspondence from Governor Calvin L. Rampton.
Letter from Key Airlines to Governor Calvin Rampton.
Effects of deregulation, charter travel, report on procedural reform.
Correspondence with Michael Gallivan, Director, Utah Travel Council, and memos and reports--Western and United Airlines.
Decision of U. S. Court of Appeals, notice of hearings, interest group reports and remarks.
Correspondence from James Schever, hearing statement, and
Correspondence, Frontier Airline's temporary suspension, mailing lists, and news releases.
Status profile, draft text, analysis, amendments, hearings agenda and statements, correspondence, National Pilots Association Report.
Remarks from
Profile; remarks of John Robson, Chairman, CAB; form reply to constituents; comments of Air Transport Association, National Industrial Traffic League and Federal Express.
Status profile and summary.
Amendments.
Howe's personal correspondence to Utah officials and others with attached letters.
Job Opportunities Program; text of Title X; interoffice memorandum, correspondence, hearings, and news releases.
Profile and analyses; hearings, announcements, agenda, selected statements; Senate version; interoffice memoranda and mailing lists; news releases, personal correspondence, correspondence from colleagues, informational material.
Status profile, correspondence and announcements of colleagues, office notes and memoranda, statements delivered at hearings,
Howe news releases.
Summary, letters, miscellaneous.
Status profile, summary of Senate and House bills, results of Conference Committee, White House news release, office memoranda and correspondence from colleagues and Executive Branch, news releases, hearings notice with attached information, AFL-CIO remarks.
Hearings announcement and background material.
Correspondence and report to the Congress, "Federal Aviation Administration's Airport Certificate Program: Has it Resulted in Safe Airports?"
Biographical sketches and statements of witnesses.
Letter from Committee to Russell Train, Environmental Protection Agency, and Environmental Protection Agency report on water pollution control.
Statements of witnesses.
Richard B. Russell Federal Building and Courthouse; proposal, James Madison Memorial Building; correspondence, newsclippings, and draft.
Status, profile, and correspondence from colleagues.
Correspondence and news releases, fact sheet and summary, Congressional Research Service
Draft, correspondence, and office memoranda.
Reports, letters, news releases on various aspects of highway safety.
Occupant crash protection.
Correspondence, memoranda and notes; statement of James Gregory, National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator; amendment; resolution by 41st Utah Legislature; information from Department of Transportation; news releases; interest group letters and remarks.
Correspondence.
Analysis, amendments, report, news releases, correspondence.
Analysis, amendment, hearings, reports, correspondence.
Analysis, amendments, correspondence from colleagues, Howe's news releases, Democratic study group memoranda.
Status profile, news releases, clippings, correspondence.
Draft text, schedules of meetings and hearings with attached relevant material and statements of witnesses.
Speech by Howe to Utah Water Pollution Control Association, hearings, Environmental Protection Agency news release, analyses by Congressional Research Service, interest group reports.
Summary and background, information from colleagues, views of Army Corps of Engineers, views of Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Study Conference papers, resolution of Utah Association of Counties, interest group comments.
Summary, remarks by Howe, amendments with attached correspondence for memoranda, correspondence from colleagues, interest group remarks.
Status report, memorandum and correspondence from colleagues.
Amendment for discharge of dredged and fill material, status profile and background, general information.
Monetary authorization, summary, Howe's amendment to include Little Dell Dam Project, correspondence to Utah officials, from colleagues and Army Corps of Engineers.
Folders without significant material have been discarded.
Animal Food Project purchase, Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act Amendments, status profile, notes and memorandum, announcements and correspondence from colleagues.
Tax Loan Account Interest Act, Small Business Act Amendments, National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act, status profile, correspondence.
Federal Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety Act of 1966, Sheep Industry Mobile Housing Exemption, interest on student loans, Title XVIII Social Security Act Amendments, Medicare payments for chiropractors, veterans benefits--LBJ Interns Program.
Federal Property and Administrative Service Act of 1949. Amendments
limit of the use of limousines in federal government Records Management Act.
Seminars for freshman Congressman, public financing of congressional elections, status profile, correspondence.
Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 Amendments, profile, correspondence, office memoranda.
Consumer protection.
Correspondence.
Profile, memoranda, reports, news releases, correspondence.
Correspondence.
Bill of Rights Procedure Act of 1975--permit State Attorney General to seek redress for damages and injuries sustained by unlawful restraints and monopolies, correspondence, news clipping.
Enlargement of Sequoia National Park.
Agricultural census, National Cancer Day, "Seventy Plus in High School Day," Howe's remarks on bill to involve senior citizens in public school activities.
Zero-Base Budgeting Act.
Energy Research and Development Free Enterprise Act.
Judicial review of administrative determinations by Veterans Administration.
Tax credits for thermal control devices, foreign income, internal revenue amendments to exempt condominiums and trusts established for mentally retarded relatives, rural health care facilities, Social Security ceiling on cost of living benefit increases.
Letters, reports, office memoranda, news items on various energy items.
Office memoranda, news releases, correspondence, news clippings.
News release, correspondence, miscellaneous.
Office memoranda, miscellaneous Congressional material, news clippings.
Office memoranda and miscellaneous.
General information, drafts of bills, amendments, summaries, excerpts from
Congressional records, personal letters to Howe from colleagues, interest group reports and remarks.
Notes and office memoranda with attachments, amendments, Howe news release, "Dear Colleague" letters, interest group letters and reports.
Roster of conferees and draft amendments.
Anouncements, office memoranda before hearings, list of witnesses,
testimony, Howe's notes at hearings, correspondence, newsclippings,
miscellaneous.
Background, "Dear Colleagues" letters, summary from Department of the Treasury, newsclippings, telegrams to Howe, interest group letters and remarks.
Notes and office memoranda.
Summaries and notes, letters, news clippings.
Funeral Costs
In favor. All letters, telegrams and mailgrams in favor of bill were retained.
Opposed. Includes Howe's responses. Mail ran 10 to 1 opposed to bill, mail in opposition has been sampled, duplicate telegrams and other similar letters discarded.
One postcard retained; twelve hundred received.
Primarily on BLM Organic Act.
Letters opposed to bill were similar enough in content that approximately 400 were discarded. Examples of each major type have been retained, one of each form letter and petition were retained. One letter in favor of the bill was found and it is included at the front of the files and marked. The retained sample represents most of the attachments that Howe received.
All individual letters retained; a few copies of an identical petition were retained; 185 were discarded. 'In favor' is defined as opposed to any compromising amendments.
Most letters were kept because of their length and varying viewpoints; those opposed to the Act and those supporting amendments to weaken it. 30 letters were redundant or brief and were discarded, the rest retained.
Because so many of these letters were very brief, asking only for Howe's support of HR 7474 and 7475, they were discarded. Approximately 125 letters discarded. Samples of all letters and telegrams were retained.
Because of the duplication in the sentiments expressed in these letters, 150 were discarded. These were either very short and expressed their opposition in one sentence or are amply represented by the retained material.
Protesting use of public funds to send Congressional delegation to England to receive the Magna Carta to be lent to the U.S. for the Bicentennial.
Includes general revenue sharing figures for Second District, dated 10-8-76.
184 letters stating only opposition to busing, in favor of HR 12365, or asking House to sign discharge petition for HR 12365 or explain why were discarded.
The similarity of the letters allowed about 100 letters to be discarded.
Casework includes work on specific issues (organized by subject) and for individuals (organized alphabetically by first letter of surname). Howe's casework files were not separated by year, 1975 and 1976 material is filed together.
Case Files--Referred to Congressman McKay By Individual Cases--Washington Office. These files had sufficient undated material that they have not been sorted, but left in original order.
Contains a complete file of the form letters mailed to constituents, organized alphabetically by subject. Inventories of letters are in the front of Fd 1.
Including a roster of staff members.
These files mostly pertain to issues in Utah that may or may not have had legislation introduced on them in Congress. They constitute casework (which is what they were called in Howe's office) in that Rep. Howe collected material on the issues and used his influence to obtain various answers and solutions
Office memoranda, policy proposals, reports from Congressional Research Service, newsclippings.
Office memoranda, correspondence, HUD report.
Correspondence and Amtrack report.
Background, correspondence, and report.
Background; Department of Interior remarks; statement of Gordon Wright, Mayor, Fillmore, Utah; correspondence; newsclippings.
Office memorandum and miscellaneous.
Correspondence.
Office memoranda and correspondence.
Alphabetically arranged by subject.
Office memoranda and notes and correspondence.
News release, office memoranda, notes, correspondence.
Notes and correspondence.
Correspondence and reports.
American Gastroentirological Association, American League for Independent Voter Education, Black Caucus, Congressional, Democratic Party, National Association, "Public Citizens."
Howe's news releases, correspondence, reports.
EIS summary and statement to Tumas Kleppe from Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas and Electric and Arizona Public Service.
News clippings.
Air quality, news releases, correspondence, EPA reports, Department of Interior report.
Miscellaneous memos, itineraries, analysis.
Memoranda, correspondence, news clippings.
Office notes, Department of Interior letters and reports, comments from Mountain States Resources Corporation.
Office memoranda and notes, background information, correspondence from the Navajo Nation, news clippings.
Memos, notes, correspondence.
Office memos and notes, National Park Service (NPS) statements, correspondence.
Items found misfiled with no identifiable place in the collection.