Hamilton Ward, Sr.

Hamilton senior Ward ( born July 3, 1829 in Salisbury, New York, † December 28, 1898 in Belmont, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1871 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hamilton Ward senior visited community schools and was privately tutored. He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in 1851 he began to practice in Phillip Ville ( Belmont today). Between 1856 and 1859, and 1862-1865 he was a district attorney in Allegany County. Governor Edwin D. Morgan appointed him in 1862 as Commissioner for digging and equipping of troops for the Civil War.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1864 for the 39th Congress Ward was in the 27th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert B. Van Valkenburgh on March 4, 1865. He was re-elected twice in a row. Since he gave up for reelection in 1870, he retired after March 3, 1871 from the Congress. In the 40th Congress he had presided over the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

Ward participated in almost all the conventions of New York 1858-1890 as a delegate. He was 1880 and 1881 Attorney General of New York. In 1890 he participated in the Constituent Assembly of New York. 1891 he was appointed Judge of the New York Supreme Court later he was elected to the office. He held it until his death on December 28, 1898 in Belmont. His body was then buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery.