Howard Graham Buffett

Howard Graham Buffett (born December 16, 1954) is an American businessman, former politician, philanthropist, photographer, farmer, and conservationist.

He is the middle child of billionaire investor Warren Buffett.

He is named after Howard Buffett, his grandfather, and Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett's favorite professor.

Howard G. Buffett grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, with two siblings – older sister Susan and younger brother Peter.

He has been active in business, politics, agriculture, conservation, photography, and philanthropy.

In August 1977, he married Marcia Sue Duncan.

Also in 1977, he began farming in Tekamah, Nebraska.

His father purchased the property for $760,000 and charged him rent.

Buffett later married Devon Morse, born Devon Armour Goss.

They had a son, Howard Warren Buffett, who was born on October 14, 1983.

Buffett currently resides in Decatur, Illinois, from where he oversees a 1500 acre family farm in Pana, Illinois, and three foundation-operated research farms, including over 1,500 acres in Arizona, and 9,200 acres in South Africa.

He is an advocate of no-till conservation agriculture.

Buffett, a Republican, served as a County Commissioner in Douglas County, Nebraska from 1989 to 1992.

He also served as the Chairman of the Nebraska Ethanol Authority and Development Board from 1989 to 1991.

He is a former member of the Board of the Commission on Presidential Debates.

From 1993 to 2004 he was a director of Coca-Cola Enterprises, the world's largest Coca-Cola Bottler.

He became a Lindsay Corporation director in 1995, served as Chairman for a year from 2002 to 2003.

In 1996, Harvard published his thesis, The Partnership of Biodiversity and High-Yield Agricultural Production.

During Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and 2023, Howard G. Buffet advocated for greater US support to Ukraine in a series of TV appearances.

In 2000, Buffett co-produced a book of photography with Colin Mead, Images of the Wild, an information source for traveling to wildlife areas in North America and Africa.

In 2001, he wrote On The Edge: Balancing Earth's Resources which focused on preserving world biodiversity, species and habitats.

Former Senator Paul Simon authored the foreword.

In 2002, Buffett wrote Tapestry of Life, a compilation of portraits taken in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, and other countries with deep poverty and human need.

Buffett was Corporate Vice President and Assistant to the Chairman of Archer Daniels Midland Company from 1992 to 1995, Director of Archer Daniels Midland Company from 1991 to 1995, Director of the Board of Directors of The GSI Group from 1995 to 2001, Director of ConAgra Foods from 2002 to 2006, Director of Agro Tech Foods Ltd. until October 26, 2006, and Director at Sloan Implement.

and in 2008, announced he would let his term as a director expire in January 2010.

He is,, a director of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., and President of Buffett Farms.

Howard G. Buffett has been a Director of The Coca-Cola Company since December 9, 2010.

In December 2011, Warren Buffett told CBS News that he would like his son Howard to succeed him as Berkshire Hathaway's non-executive chairman.

Buffett was sworn in as Sheriff of Macon County, Illinois on Friday, September 15, 2017.

He was selected to fill the remaining term of office after the resignation of former Sheriff Thomas Schneider.

Buffett has been an active volunteer with the Macon County Sheriff's Office for several years, having been appointed Undersheriff by Schneider.

Buffett, through the Howard G. Buffett Foundation has donated several million dollars to various law enforcement agencies and projects throughout central Illinois.

As Sheriff the Howard G. Buffett Foundation continued to donate funds to purchase patrol rifles and radio earpieces for the Macon County Sheriff’s Office along with money to implement a Personal Patrol Vehicle Program.

Brown, who was sworn in as Sheriff in 2018, chose to resign the position rather than appeal the ruling.

On June 12, 2021, Buffett suspended his campaign for sheriff citing state legislation changing the requirement to serve as a county sheriff in Illinois.

Buffett has published eight books on conservation, wildlife, and the human condition, and has written articles and opinion pieces for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

In January 2019, the Phoenix New Times ran a 27-page investigative report potentially implying that Howard Buffett used money donated to his charitable foundation principally by his father to gain influence and obtain a position in the Cochise County, Arizona Sheriffs Department possibly to conduct operations against migrants in the borderlands or to combat drug-runners.

The operations implied by the report include the stockpiling or donation of weapons and a questionable defoliation campaign.

On May 3, 2021, Buffett announced he would run for the Republican nomination to challenge incumbent Democratic sheriff Tony Brown.

On June 4, 2021, Judge Anna Benjamin ruled that Republican candidate Jim Root had actually defeated Democratic candidate Tony Brown by sixteen votes in the 2018 election.