James Hugh Ward

James Hugh Ward ( born November 30, 1853 in Chicago, Illinois; † August 15, 1916 ) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1887 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Ward attended the common schools and then studied until 1873 at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. After a subsequent law degree from Union College of Law in Chicago and his 1876 was admitted to the bar he began to work in this profession. In 1879 he was mayor of West Chicago. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1884 Ward was the third electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George R. Davis on March 4, 1885. Since he resigned in 1886 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1877. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Ward practiced again as a lawyer in Chicago, where he died on August 15, 1916.

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