William L. Ward

William Lukens Ward ( born September 2, 1856 in Pemberwick, Connecticut, † July 16, 1933 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Lukens Ward was born about five years before the outbreak of civil war in Pemberwick in the Town of Greenwich in Fairfield County. The family moved in 1863 to Port Chester in Westchester County. He attended the Friends Seminary in New York City and graduated in 1878 at the School of Mines of Columbia College in New York City. Then he went to the manufacture of bolts, nuts and rivets in Port Chester.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. He was for several years chairman of the Republican State Committee. In the congressional elections of 1896 for the 55th Congress Ward was in the 16th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Benjamin L. Fairchild on March 4, 1897. He retired after the March 3, 1899 out of the Congress.

After his conference time he walked in Port Chester after his former manufacturing operations. Between 1904 and 1912 he was in the Republican National Committee. On July 16, 1933, he died in New York City and was buried in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla in the family mausoleum.