David Jenkins Ward

David Jenkins Ward ( born September 17, 1871 in Salisbury, Maryland, † February 18, 1961 ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1945 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Ward attended the public schools of his home. In the following years he worked as a farmer, lumberjack and trade. He was also active in the real estate market. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1915 and 1917 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland; 1918 to 1926 he was chairman of the party of the Democrats in Wicomico County. Between 1926 and 1934, and the years 1938 and 1939 he was a member of the State Senate.

Following the resignation of Mr Thomas Alan Goldsborough Ward was at the due election for the first seat of Maryland as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on June 8, 1939. After two re- elections he could remain until January 3, 1945 in the Congress. By 1941, there still more New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

In 1944, Ward was not nominated by his party for re-election. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he no longer appeared politically in appearance. He died on 18 February 1961 in his hometown of Salisbury.