W. W. Howes Municipal Airport

 

The W. W. Howes airport was dedicated on July 5, 1935, and was named for William Washington Howes, a local attorney and politician.

 

Mr. Howes was born in 1887, and was South Dakota's delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1940, as well as being the first Assistant United States Postmaster  from South Dakota, appointed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  He later resigned this position to protest FDR's bid for a third presidential term.  Howes died in Washington D. C. on January 15, 1962, and is buried at Oak Hill cemetery there.

 

The airport is now known as "Huron Regional Airport."

 

Sources:

Photo-Roger Anderson

1932 Huron City Directory

South Dakota Legislature Legislative Research Council website

Political Graveyard
"Huron Revisited" by Huss, Kuni, Lampe & Moxon

 

 

 

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