Editing Jonathan Howe (section)

==Personal life==
Howe is the author of the 1971 book ''Multicrises: Seapower and Global Politics in the Missile Age''<ref>{{cite book|first=Jonathan T.|last=Howe|title=Multicrises: Seapower and Global Politics in the Missile Age|year=1971|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=0-262-08043-5|oclc=159041|url=https://archive.org/details/Multicrise_00_Howe}}</ref>  and the 2025 book ''Opportunity Lost or Mission Impossible?''<ref>{{cite web |title=Opportunity Lost or Mission Impossible?: My Year in Somalia as Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, 1993–1994: Howe, USN (Ret.), ADM Jonathan T.: 9798338340370: Amazon.com: Books |website=Amazon.com. Spend less. Smile more. |date=2025-05-14 |url=https://www.amazon.com/Opportunity-Lost-Mission-Impossible-Secretary-General/dp/B0DWGLFW42 |access-date=2025-05-14}}</ref>

Howe was chairman of the board of the [[World Affairs Councils of America|World Affairs Council]] of [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]] from 2006–2012.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mathis|first=Karen Brune|title=Howe retires as World Affairs Council chairman, Cook is successor|website=Jax Daily Record|date=2012-06-22|url=https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/news/2012/jun/22/howe-retires-world-affairs-council-chairman-cook-successor/|access-date=2025-04-02}}</ref> The World Affairs Council of Jacksonville began its own Academic WorldQuest program in 2005, the Admiral Jonathan T. Howe Academic WorldQuest, which features a trivia-style six-round, ten-question competition.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hester |first=Britt |title=Creekside High School Triumphs at the 2024 Admiral Jonathan T. Howe Academic WorldQuest |website=The World Affairs Council of Jacksonville |date=2024-05-14 |url=https://worldaffairscounciljax.org/meet-the-2024-admiral-jonathan-t-howe-academic-worldquest-winning-team/ |access-date=2025-04-11}}</ref>

He also served as chairman of the board of Fleet Landing, and was a past president of the [[Rotary International|Rotary Club]] of Jacksonville.<ref>{{cite web|last=Marbut|first=Max|title=Workspace: Jonathan Howe, executive director, Arthur Vining Davis Foundations|website=Jax Daily Record|date=2012-01-12|url=https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/news/2012/jan/12/workspace-jonathan-howe-executive-director-arthur-vining-davis-foundations/|access-date=2025-04-02}}</ref>

Admiral Howe was married to Dr. Harriet Mangrum Howe, whom he met in high school; her father, [[Richard C. Mangrum]], was a U.S. Marine Corps general and served as [[Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps]].<ref name=FloridaTimesUnion_Patton_20060612>{{cite news |work=Florida Times-Union |title=City will meet the world through his steering |date=June 12, 2006 |page=B-1 |first=Charlie |last=Patton |url=http://www.swarthmore.edu/x4775.xml |publisher=Swarthmore College – Swarthmore in the News, June 29, 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070719084942/http://www.swarthmore.edu//x4775.xml |archivedate=July 19, 2007 }}</ref> Howe's father, Hamilton W. Howe, was a US Navy Admiral awarded the [[Navy Cross]] for sinking a German [[U-boat]] in the Atlantic during World War II.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hamilton Howe |website=Hall of Valor: Medal of Honor, Silver Star, U.S. Military Awards |date=2024-11-05 |url=https://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient/recipient-20534/ |access-date=2025-04-11}}</ref> Harriet was an assistant professor of sociology at the [[University of North Florida]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unf.edu/coas/soc-anth/faculty.htm |title=Sociology Department faculty |accessdate=2006-11-15 |publisher=University of North Florida |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923223538/http://www.unf.edu/coas/soc-anth/faculty.htm |archivedate=2006-09-23 }}</ref>

Admiral Howe has six grown children and currently resides in Florida.