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By 1839 in his early twenties, Howe was admitted to the Kennebec County bar and began practicing law alongside Lot M. Morrill, a future U.S. senator from Maine.<ref name=p90/> Two years later, he married Linda Ann Haynes, and the couple had two children.
By 1839 in his early twenties, Howe was admitted to the Kennebec County bar and began practicing law alongside Lot M. Morrill, a future U.S. senator from Maine.<ref name=p90/> Two years later, he married Linda Ann Haynes, and the couple had two children.
===Religion===
According to professor Victor B. Howard:<ref>Victor B. Howard (2021), [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Religion_and_the_Radical_Republican_Move/tgQaEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=timothy+o.+howe+unitarian&pg=PA14&printsec=frontcover Religion and the Radical Republican Movement, 1860-1870], p. 14. ''Google Books''. Retrieved November 21, 2022.</ref>
{{cquote|Howe was a sincere and devout Unitarian. In his letters to his daughter Grace, which were filled with religious sentiment, Howe expressed his belief in the justice of God and discussed Unitarian sermons by various sermons. He opposed the annexation of Texas, endorsed the principles of the Wilmot Proviso, and was an early advocate of universal emancipation and black suffrage.}}
==Political ascension==
==Political ascension==
====Rejection of Jacksonian "states' rights"====
====Rejection of Jacksonian "states' rights"====
Due to his leading role among the Wisconsin Republican Party, Howe was favored by conservative elements for U.S. senator in 1857. A prominent issue in the campaign was states' rights, a topic debated over amid tensions over slavery. The theory of nullification, originally developed by [[John C. Calhoun]] in a pro-states' rights revolt against President [[Andrew Jackson]] decades prior, was used by a faction of Republicans against the Fugitive Slave Act.<ref name=p93/> The doctrine was ideologically led by Carl Schurz, who Howe later quarreled with.
Due to his leading role among the Wisconsin Republican Party, Howe was favored by classically conservative, Whiggish political elements for U.S. senator in 1857. A prominent issue in the campaign was states' rights, a topic debated over amid tensions over slavery. The theory of nullification, originally developed by [[John C. Calhoun]] in a pro-states' rights revolt against President [[Andrew Jackson]] decades prior, was used by a faction of Republicans against the Fugitive Slave Act.<ref name=p93/> The doctrine was ideologically led by Carl Schurz, who Howe later quarreled with.
Howe refused to support the argument of states' rights against the Fugitive Slave Act, deeming the popular sovereignty doctrine (notably used by Northern Democrat Stephen A. Douglas to deceptively perpetuate slavery under the guise of "democracy") repulsive and anathema to traditional Whig principles.<ref name=p93/> Due to the state party's legislative caucus favoring the states' rights argument, Howe lost nomination to James R. Doolittle.
Howe refused to support the argument of states' rights against the Fugitive Slave Act, deeming the popular sovereignty doctrine (notably used by Northern Democrat Stephen A. Douglas to deceptively perpetuate slavery under the guise of "democracy") repulsive and anathema to traditional Whig principles.<ref name=p93/> Due to the state party's legislative caucus favoring the states' rights argument, Howe lost nomination to James R. Doolittle.
====Hayes years, Stalwart politics====
====Hayes years, Stalwart politics====
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Early in the administration of [[Rutherford B. Hayes]], Howe became an outspoken opponent of its policies and joined the [[Stalwart]] GOP faction which opposed the abandonment of congressional Reconstruction. He excoriated the civil service efforts of reformers, which prohibited public servants from participation in committees or conventions, branding Hayes as offending:<ref name=pp97-99/>
Early in the administration of [[Rutherford B. Hayes]], Howe became an outspoken opponent of its policies and joined the [[Stalwart]] GOP faction which opposed the abandonment of congressional Reconstruction. He excoriated the civil service efforts of reformers, which prohibited public servants from participation in committees or conventions, branding Hayes as offending:<ref name=pp97-99/>
{{cquote|...both republicanism and equal citizenship as Samuel J. Tilden would never have offended them.|||Howe, March 25, 1878}}
{{cquote|...both republicanism and equal citizenship as Samuel J. Tilden would never have offended them.|||Howe, March 25, 1878}}
====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]].