Howard Homan Buffett August 13, 1903 – April 30, 1964 was an American businessman, investor, and politician. He was the four-term Republican United States Representative for a state of Nebraska. He was the father of Warren Buffett, the famed American billionaire businessman as well as investor.
Howard Buffett was born in Omaha, Nebraska to Henrietta Duvall Buffett and Ernest P. Buffett, owners of a grocery business. Ernest P. Buffett's parents werecousins, both having mainly English descent. The Buffet surname renamed to Buffett originates in France with a Huguenot weaver, named John Buffett, who became Buffett's number one American Buffett ancestor when he immigrated to New York in the late-1600s. Howard Buffett attended public schools and graduated from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1925. While a student, Buffett was a brother of the Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity. He married Leila Stahl on December 27, 1925. The Buffetts were active members of Dundee Presbyterian Church. After failing to secure a job in the generation grocery business, he started a small stock brokerage firm.