OMAHA, April 29 (AP)—Howard Buffett, a former Representative from Omaha, died today at a local hospital after a long illness. He was 60 years old.

Mr. Buffett was an Omaha investment broker.

He served in the House from 1943-1949 and from 1951 to 1953.

Throughout his political career he was an arch?conservative. He was generally opposed to foreign?aid programs.

During his second term in Congress he warned that unless curbs were made on the United States military leadership this country would become a dictatorship.

Mr. Buffett graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1925 and entered investment banking the next year. He re?turned to the investment business in 1953 and did not seek a Federal office again.

Howard H Buffett