Howe was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses . He was not a candidate for renomination in 1854 . He resumed his former business pursuits , and was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln as the candidate for president . He was assistant adjutant general on the staff of Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin and chairman of the Allegheny County committee for recruiting Union soldiers during the American Civil War . He was one of the organizers and first president of the Pittsburgh chamber of commerce . He died in Pittsburgh in 1877 and was interred in Allegheny Cemetery
1860 Republican National Convention
1860 Republican National Convention
Thomas Marshall Howe