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A native of [[Maine]],<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.funeraldigest.com/obituaries/?id=138250727|title=Perry Holbrook Howard|publisher=funeraldigest.com|accessdate=February 9, 2010}}</ref> Howard served for three years in the [[United States Navy]] in the South West Pacific Theater of Operations during [[World War II]]. Thereafter, he attended [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]]. In 1964, he returned to LSU a decade after his graduation and remained on the faculty for nearly thirty years.<ref name=obit/>​

A native of [[Maine]],<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.funeraldigest.com/obituaries/?id=138250727|title=Perry Holbrook Howard|publisher=funeraldigest.com|accessdate=February 9, 2010}}</ref> Howard served for three years in the [[United States Navy]] in the South West Pacific Theater of Operations during [[World War II]]. Thereafter, he attended [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]]. In 1964, he returned to LSU a decade after his graduation and remained on the faculty for nearly thirty years.<ref name=obit/>​

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In 1963, Howard joined William C. Havard and Rudolf Heberle in co-authorship of the work, ''The Louisiana Elections of 1960,'' which focuses on (1) the 1959–1960 [[Governor|gubernatorial]] campaign, won by [[Jimmie Davis]] for his second nonconsecutive term, and (2) the following presidential contest, in which [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] easily won Louisiana's then ten [[electoral vote]]s. Topics covered include social and political background and socio-economic factors in voting. The authors determined, for instance, that Kennedy won in the state because he ran more strongly among the working class in South Louisiana, and [[Richard M. Nixon]] lost North Louisiana to [[Independent]] electors pledged to [[U.S. Senator]] [[Harry F. Byrd]] of [[Virginia]]. Kennedy also ran considerably ahead of deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr. (1912-1964), Davis's opponent in the gubernatorial runoff election among key Democratic constituency groups. The authors also found that several sugar-producing parishes in south Louisiana which had backed [[Dwight Eisenhower]] in 1956 switched to Kennedy-Johnson in 1960.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-louisiana-elections-of-1960-by-william-c-havard-rudolf-heberle-perry-h-howard.jsp|title=''The Louisiana Elections of 1960''|publisher=questia.com|accessdate=February 9, 2010}}</ref>​

In 1963, Howard joined William C. Havard and Rudolf Heberle in co-authorship of the work, ''The Louisiana Elections of 1960,'' which focuses on (1) the 1959–1960 [[Governor|gubernatorial]] campaign, won by [[Jimmie Davis]] for his second nonconsecutive term, and (2) the following presidential contest, in which [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] easily won Louisiana's then ten [[electoral vote]]s. Topics covered include social and political background and socio-economic factors in voting. The authors determined, for instance, that Kennedy won in the state because he ran more strongly among the working class in South Louisiana, and [[Richard M. Nixon]] lost North Louisiana to [[Independent]] electors pledged to [[U.S. Senator]] Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. (1887-1966) of [[Virginia]]. Kennedy also ran considerably ahead of deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr. (1912-1964), Davis's opponent in the gubernatorial runoff election among key Democratic constituency groups. The authors also found that several sugar-producing parishes in south Louisiana which had backed [[Dwight Eisenhower]] in 1956 switched to Kennedy-Johnson in 1960.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-louisiana-elections-of-1960-by-william-c-havard-rudolf-heberle-perry-h-howard.jsp|title=''The Louisiana Elections of 1960''|publisher=questia.com|accessdate=February 9, 2010}}</ref>​

Howard also studied Morrison's three gubernatorial campaigns, 1956, 1960, and 1964, from a sociological standpoint and found that the former [[New Orleans]] [[mayor]] improved his showing in each race but still fell short of victory, having been defeated by [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]], Jimmie Davis, and [[John J. McKeithen]].<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=4233033|author=Mark T. Carleton|title=The Gubernatorial Campaigns of deLesseps S. Morrison|publisher=jstor|volume=34|pages=261–270}}</ref>​

Howard also studied Morrison's three gubernatorial campaigns, 1956, 1960, and 1964, from a sociological standpoint and found that the former [[New Orleans]] [[mayor]] improved his showing in each race but still fell short of victory, having been defeated by [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]], Jimmie Davis, and [[John J. McKeithen]].<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=4233033|author=Mark T. Carleton|title=The Gubernatorial Campaigns of deLesseps S. Morrison|publisher=jstor|volume=34|pages=261–270}}</ref>​

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In 1971, Howard published through LSU ''Political Tendencies in Louisiana,'' a 476-page scholarly study of his adopted state's political climate from statehood through 1970. Chapters include "Two-Party Politics, Louisiana Style, 1834–1852", "Another Look at [[Reconstruction]'', "The Rise of [[Huey Long|Longism]]," "The Long Era, Bifactional Politics, 1928–1956", and "The Issue of Civil Rights and Presidential Elections."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.questia.com|title=Political Tendencies in Louisiana|publisher=questia.com|accessdate=February 9, 2010}}</ref>​

In 1971, Howard published through LSU ''Political Tendencies in Louisiana,'' a 476-page scholarly study of his adopted state's political climate from statehood through 1970. Chapters include "Two-Party Politics, Louisiana Style, 1834–1852", "Another Look at [[Reconstruction]'', "The Rise of [[Huey Long|Longism]]," "The Long Era, Bifactional Politics, 1928–1956", and "The Issue of Civil Rights and Presidential Elections."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.questia.com|title=Political Tendencies in Louisiana|publisher=questia.com|accessdate=February 9, 2010}}</ref>

In 1972, Howard wrote a review of ''Politics of Southern Equality: Law and Social Change in a Mississippi County'' (1970), by Frederick M. Wirt, an examination of how [[civil rights]] laws passed between 1957 and 1965 changed the political, social, and cultural fabric at the local level in Panola County, [[Mississippi]].<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=2576810|title=Review of ''Politics of Southern Equality: Law and Social Change in a Mississippi County''|publisher= | volume=50|pages=541–542}}</ref> In 1978, Howard published a review of John Dittmer's ''Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900–1920,'' in which he noted that the spirit of the black community coupled with some interracial cooperation at the time provided the thrust for the later dismantlement of [[segregation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ann.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/439/1/173|title=Review of ''Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900–1920''|publisher=sagepub.com: ''The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 439, No. 1, 173 (1978)|accessdate=February 9, 2010}}</ref>​

In 1972, Howard wrote a review of ''Politics of Southern Equality: Law and Social Change in a Mississippi County'' (1970), by Frederick M. Wirt, an examination of how [[civil rights]] laws passed between 1957 and 1965 changed the political, social, and cultural fabric at the local level in Panola County, [[Mississippi]].<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=2576810|title=Review of ''Politics of Southern Equality: Law and Social Change in a Mississippi County''|publisher= | volume=50|pages=541–542}}</ref> In 1978, Howard published a review of John Dittmer's ''Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900–1920,'' in which he noted that the spirit of the black community coupled with some interracial cooperation at the time provided the thrust for the later dismantlement of [[segregation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ann.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/439/1/173|title=Review of ''Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900–1920''|publisher=sagepub.com: ''The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 439, No. 1, 173 (1978)|accessdate=February 9, 2010}}</ref>​