Howe, Eunice P., 1918-

Lawyer, government official, consumer affairs advocate, and Republican Party activist, Eunice Perry (Simm) Howe was born in Belmont, Mass., in 1918. Educated at Mt. Holyoke College (A.B. 1938), Boston University School of Law (J.D. 1941), and Harvard University (M.P.A. 1985), Howe was a lawyer in the Massachusetts Attorney General's office (1941-1949) and in the United States Naval Reserve during World War II. In Massachusetts she served on numerous commissions, including the Consumers' Council (1965-1974), the Public Utilities Commission (1974-1979) and the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (1985-1991). In 1970 Howe was appointed by President Nixon as chair of the President's Consumer Advisory Council, a position she resigned in 1974.

The former president of the Women's Republican Club and chair of the Republican Town Committee, both in Brookline, Mass., Howe was Republican National Committeewoman for Massachusetts (1968-1975). She was a member of International Women's Year Coordinating Committee for Massachusetts, delegate-at-large to the 1977 IWY Conference in Houston, and member of the advisory board of the Women's Education and Legal Defense Fund (1977-1981). A volunteer or board member for numerous educational, civic, and religious organizations, Howe received the Woman of the Year Award from the Greater Boston Business and Professional Women's Club (1970). She married Henry Dunster Howe (d. 1982) in 1945; they had two daughters. Her second husband, Henry Bradford Arthur, died in 1994.