American politician
Hamilton Ward Sr.
(July 3, 1829– December 28, 1898) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a judge on the
Supreme Court of New York
, the
attorney general of New York
, and a
Republican
member of the
United States House of Representatives
.
Education
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He attended the common schools and was privately tutored. He studied law in
Elmira, New York
, was admitted to the
bar
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Early career
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He commenced legal practice in
Philipsville
in 1851.
Beginning in 1858 Ward was regularly selected as a delegate to New York's Republican state conventions, and he attended almost every one until 1890.
He was
district attorney
of Allegany County from 1856 to 1859 and again from 1862 to 1865. He was appointed in 1862 by the
governor of New York
as commissioner to raise and equip troops for the
Civil War
.
United States House of Representatives
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Ward was elected as a
Republican
to the
39th
,
40th
and
41st United States Congresses
, serving from March 4, 1865 to March 3, 1871. While a Representative, he was Chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Fortieth Congress).
In 1868, Ward was on the seven-person committee tasked with authoring
the articles of impeachment
against President
Andrew Johnson
after
Johnson was impeached
.
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Ward was not a candidate for renomination to the House in 1870.
Post-congressional career in New York State politics
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Ward was
attorney general of New York
from 1880 to 1881, elected in
1879
.
Ward was a delegate to the
New York State Constitutional Convention
of 1890, and was appointed (and subsequently elected) a justice of the
New York Supreme Court
and served from 1891 to 1895, and in the
Appellate Division
from 1895 until his death in 1898.
Personal life
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Ward's son
Hamilton Ward Jr.
would go on to serve as attorney general of New York himself (1929?1930).
Ward was buried at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Belmont.
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