Ward, William Thomas

Life Span
to
    Full name
    William Thomas Ward
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Slave State
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    St. Mary’s College, KY
    Occupation
    Politician
    Military
    Attorney or Judge
    Political Parties
    Whig
    Government
    US House of Representatives
    State legislature
    Military
    US military (Pre-Civil War)
    Union Army

    William Thomas Ward (Congressional Biographical Dictionary)

    Reference
    WARD, William Thomas, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Amelia County, Va., August 9, 1808; attended the common schools and St. Mary’s College, near Lebanon, Ky.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Greensburg, Ky.; served in the Mexican War as major of the Fourth Kentucky Volunteers in 1847 and 1848; member of the State house of representatives in 1850; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); was not a candidate for renomination in 1852; commissioned brigadier general in the Union Army and served throughout the Civil War; resumed the practice of law in Louisville, Ky., where he died October 12, 1878; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery.
    “Ward, William Thomas,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000145.
    How to Cite This Page: "Ward, William Thomas," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6801.