[2][3] In 1951, he argued the largest Indian claim case to come before the United States Supreme Court to that date, on behalf of the Alcea Band of Tillamooks.
[2] In 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Howrey to chair the FTC, where he remained until 1955.
[2][3] Following her death, he remarried to childhood friend India Picket Lilly in 1989.
[3] Howrey died of pneumonia and congestive heart failure at Winchester Hospital in Virginia at the age of 92.
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