Ward, Thomas B
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 27, 1835, in Marysville, Ohio. He was twice elected mayor of the city of Lafayette, Ind., serving from 1861 to 1865. He served six years as city attorney; and in 1875 was appointed to the then newly-created office of judge of the superior court of Tippecanoe county. In 1876 he was elected to that position, and served four years. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-eighth congress; and was reelected to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.