James Howe (New South Wales politician)
James Peter Howe was an Australian politician.
He was born in Sydney to mechanical engineer William Bryant and Mary Lambert. He was educated at Chippendale and worked as a leather dresser from the age of fifteen. On 27 November 1878 he married Annie Emma Burchmore, with whom he had nine children. He was a Waterloo councillor from 1886 and mayor from 1888 to 1889. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Redfern in 1888 as a Protectionist. Defeated in 1891, he was elected for Bourke in the same election, but resigned a few months later. He later moved to Melbourne, where he established a leather business and also served on Preston Council. Howe died at East Melbourne in 1917.
