Edward Brinkley Howard
West Point graduate and U.S. Army Colonel
Dartmouth College
Class of 1947
1949 West Point (B.S.)
Born 1925 Washington DC
Died 2017 VA
Quotes from Biographical Sources
Col. Edward B. Howard, USA (Ret.) graduated from Dunbar High School, America’s first high school for black students, in 1943. He was a co-valedictorian and Cadet Colonel and Regimental Commander of the Washington High School Cadet Corps. Col. Howard attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., for two years prior to being admitted to West Point with the class of 1949. Col. Howard graduated from West Point in June 1949 and spent a successful career in the U.S. Army Signal Corps before his military retirement. Col. Howard’s grandson, Capt. Scott Bostic, USA, graduated from West Point in the class of 2005.
Norton, Eleanor Holmes. (Dec 7, 2011). Norton Urges D.C. Students to Apply to Service Academies as Two Dunbar Graduates Celebrate 65th Anniversary of Facing off in Army-Navy Game. Retrieved from http://norton.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/norton
Other source(s)
- TheHistoryMakers, Col. Edward Howard. https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/col-edward-howard
Profile image source: The Howitzer. Yearbook of the United States Corps of Cadets 1949.