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→1880: Stalwarts vs. Blaine faction vs. Half-Breeds
====1880: Stalwarts vs. Blaine faction vs. Half-Breeds====
====1880: Stalwarts vs. Blaine faction vs. Half-Breeds====
[[File:Hon. Roscoe Conkling, N.Y.jpg|thumb|right|240px|Howe served as a key adviser to the 1880 Stalwart movement led by Conkling.]]
Howe worked in the Stalwart movement during the 1880 Republican National Convention to nominate Ulysses S. Grant for an unprecedented, nonconsecutive third term at the Chicago convention.<ref name=pp97-99/> The movement was led by [[Roscoe Conkling]] (the leader of the Stalwart Republicans), [[Thomas C. Platt]], [[John A. Logan]], and [[J. Donald Cameron]], with its earlier groundwork planned by late Michigan senator [[Zachariah Chandler]].
Howe worked in the Stalwart movement during the 1880 Republican National Convention to nominate Ulysses S. Grant for an unprecedented, nonconsecutive third term at the Chicago convention.<ref name=pp97-99/> The movement was led by [[Roscoe Conkling]] (the leader of the Stalwart Republicans), [[Thomas C. Platt]], [[John A. Logan]], and [[J. Donald Cameron]], with its earlier groundwork planned by late Michigan senator [[Zachariah Chandler]].