Eunice P. Howe

Lawyer, government official, consumer affairs advocate, and Republican Party activist, Eunice Perry (Simm) Howe was born in Belmont, Massachusetts, on April 24, 1918, the oldest child of A. Glenn and Mary Eliza Simm. She received her Bachelor's Degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1938 and her Juris Doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1941, graduating at the top of her class; she also took graduate courses in law at George Washington University in 1943 and 1944, and received a Master's in Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School in 1985. She married Henry Dunster Howe, a dentist, in 1945; they had two daughters: Eunice (born 1947) and Maryalice (1950-2010). Henry Howe died in 1982 and in 1988 Howe married Henry Bradford Arthur, a professor at Harvard University's Business School; Arthur died in 1994.

In 1941, Howe joined the Massachusetts Attorney General Robert T. Bushnell's office as a law clerk, and in 1942 Attorney General Robert T. Bushnell appointed her Assistant Attorney General, making her the youngest person to hold that office in the history of the state. She left the Attorney General's office in 1944, to join the U.S. Naval Reserve, serving in the Navy's Casualty Office until 1946. She returned to the Attorney General's office in 1948, serving until 1949 as assistant to the Attorney General and as Counsel to the Division of Employment Security.

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