Aaron Ward (politician)

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Aaron Ward

Aaron Ward (born July 5, 1790 in Sing Sing (now Ossining ), New York , † March 2, 1867 in Georgetown DC ) was an American officer , lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1825 and 1829, then between 1831 and 1837 and finally between 1841 and 1843 .

Career

Aaron Ward was born in Sing Sing about nine years after the War of Independence ended . He completed his undergraduate studies at Mount Pleasant Academy . During the British-American War he served in the 29th Infantry Regiment , where he first held the rank of lieutenant and then a captain . After the end of the war, he studied law and began practicing as a lawyer in Sing Sing after receiving his license. Ward was a district attorney in Westchester County . On January 19, 1820 he married Mary L. Watson (1797-1853), daughter of Elkanah Watson . Ward served in the New York Militia . During this time he rose from Colonel to Major General .

As a result of a fragmentation of the Democratic Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the anti-Jacksonian faction . In the congressional elections of 1824 Ward was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Joel Frost on March 4, 1825 . Before the election in 1826 , his political affiliation changed to the Adams faction . After a successful re-election he resigned in 1828 to run again and was eliminated from the after March 4, 1829 Congress of. In the following time he joined the Jacksonian faction. Ward was elected to the 22nd Congress , where he succeeded Henry B. Cowles on March 4, 1831 . In 1834 Gen. Aaron Ward was elected Honorary NA of the National Academy of Design .

He was re-elected twice in a row as a congressman. Since he renounced a sixth candidacy, he left the Congress after March 3, 1837. As a Democrat , he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in 1840 . He succeeded Governor Kemble on March 4, 1841 . In 1842 he suffered a defeat in his re-election and left the Congress on March 3, 1843.

He then took part in 1846 as a delegate to the New York Constituent Assembly . In 1855 he suffered a defeat in his candidacy for the post of Secretary of State . Ward was the first President of Dale Cemetery , Ossining and a trustee of Mount Pleasant Academy . He died on March 2, 1867 at his son-in-law's home in Georgetown, DC, and was then buried in Dale Cemetery. Congressman Elijah Ward was his nephew.

literature

Web links

  • Aaron Ward in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Plow boy, and journal of the Board of Agriculture , Volume 1, JO Cole, 1820, p. 287.
  2. ^ Nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians . Archived from the original on August 14, 2016. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  3. ↑ George Kemp Ward: Andrew Warde and His Descendants, 1597-1910 , AT De La Mare Printing and Publishing, 1910, p. 245.
personal data
SURNAME Ward, Aaron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Sing Sing, now Ossining , New York
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1867
Place of death Georgetown DC