Charles B. Ward
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Charles Maple Ward was a U.S. Representative
United States House of Representatives
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 from New York
New York
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Born in Newark, New Jersey
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, Ward attended the public schools and was graduated from Pennsylvania Military College at Chester in 1899.
He moved to New York and settled in Debruce, Sullivan County, in 1903.
He engaged in agricultural pursuits.
He was editor and owner of the Liberty Register at Liberty, New York
Liberty, New York
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 from 1910 to 1928.

Ward was elected as a Republican
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 to the Sixty-fourth
64th United States Congress
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 and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1925).
He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth
69th United States Congress
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 Congress.
He resumed agricultural pursuits.
He was owner and operator of the Striper Club until his death.
He died at Liberty, New York
Liberty, New York
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, May 27, 1946.
He was interred in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, New Jersey
Newark, New Jersey
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