Metcalf
VICTOR HOWARD, American public official; born at Utica, N. Y., Oct. 10, 1853. He was graduated from Yale in 1876, and was admitted to the Connecticut and New York bars in 1877, after which he practiced at Utica, and Oakland, Cal. In 1899 he was elected as Republican member to Congress from California. In 1904 he was appointed by President Roosevelt Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and in 1906 Secretary of the Navy, retiring in 1908 on President Taft's election.