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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkWilliam Lukens WARD
(1856-1933)
WARD, William Lukens, a
Representative from New York; born in Pemberwick, town of
Greenwich, Fairfield County, Conn., September 2, 1856; moved to
Port Chester, N.Y., with his parents in 1863; attended Friends
Seminary, New York City, and the school of mines of Columbia
College, New York City (class of 1878); engaged in the manufacture
of bolts, nuts, and rivets in Port Chester, N.Y.; chairman of the
Republican State committee for several years; elected as a
Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3,
1899); resumed his former manufacturing pursuits in Port Chester,
Westchester County, N.Y.; member of the Republican National
Committee 1904-1912; died in New York City, July 16, 1933;
interment in the family mausoleum in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla,
N.Y.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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