High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Louis McHenry Howe (January 14, 1871- April 18, 1936) was an intimate friend and close political advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He, along with Eleanor Roosevelt and Margurite "Missy" LeHand, was one of the few close associates who supported FDR throughout the most difficult stages of his personal and political recuperation after being afflicted by paralytic illness.