Howard Homan Buffett b. 13 August 1903 d. 30 April 1964

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13 August 1903 birth: Omaha (Nebraska)

27 December 1925 marriage: ♀ Leila Stahl (Buffett) [Stahl] b. between 1904 and 1905

30 August 1930 child birth: ♂ Warren Buffett [Buffett] b. 30 August 1930

30 April 1964 death: Omaha (Nebraska)

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Howard Homan Buffett (August 13, 1903 – April 30, 1964) was an Omaha, Nebraska businessman, investor, and four-term Republican United States Representative. Buffett is the father of Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor.

Buffett married Leila Stahl on December 27, 1925. The Buffetts were active members of Dundee Presbyterian Church.

Howard Buffett is remembered for his highly libertarian Old Right stance, having maintained a friendship with Murray Rothbard for a number of years. A vocal critic of the Truman Doctrine and the Korean War, Buffett "was convinced that the United States was largely responsible for the eruption of conflict in Korea; for the rest of his life he tried unsuccessfully to get the Senate Armed Services Committee to declassify the testimony of CIA head Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, which Buffett told [Rothbard] established American responsibility for the Korean outbreak." Of the Truman Doctrine, Buffett said: "Our Christian ideals cannot be exported to other lands by dollars and guns."

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