Hamilton Ward, Sr.
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Hamilton Ward, Sr. (July 3, 1829 - December 28, 1898) was a United States Representative and Attorney General of New York; his son, Hamilton Ward, Jr., also held the latter office.
Born in Salisbury, New York, he attended the common schools and was privately tutored. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Phillipsville (now Belmont) in 1851. 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.
Ward was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses, serving from March 4, 1865 to March 3, 1871. While a Representative, he was chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Fortieth Congress). Ward also drafted articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson in 1868.
He was not a candidate for renomination to the House in 1870. He had been delegate to nearly all State conventions from 1858 to 1890, and was attorney general of New York in 1880 and 1881, defeating Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr. for election and serving under Governor Alonzo B. Cornell. He was a member of the State constitutional commission in 1890, and was appointed (and subsequently elected) justice of the New York Supreme Court and served from 1891 until his death in Belmont in 1898. Interment was in Forest Hill Cemetery.
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- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- List of New York State Attorneys General
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