{"id":11773,"date":"2013-11-23T23:39:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T05:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11773"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:59:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:59:59","slug":"ward-william-jefferson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/ward-william-jefferson\/","title":{"rendered":"WARD, William Jefferson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Sparta<\/p>\n<p><strong>WARD, William Jefferson<\/strong>, dairy farmer; born White Co., Tenn., July 7, 1852; Irish and English descent; son of <strong>Andrew Jackson and Mary Adeline (Cashdollar) WARD<\/strong>; father was a farmer; educated in the public schools of White Co., Tenn., and Zion Academy; moved to Missouri in 1886, and elected to Legislature of the State of MO., from Stodard County in 1890; in 37th general assembly of Mo., he was chairman of the house committee on agriculture, introduced and passed a bill placing street railways under state board of railroad commission, in 39th General assembly, was chairman of Committee of Ways and Means, and in 40th general assembly, appointed by governor a member of auditing committee, and speaker of the house; married <strong>Laura ROBERTS<\/strong>, Dec. 9, 1886; member Farmers Alliance; Democrat; member of M. E. church, South; has always been interested in farming.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Source: Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Sparta WARD, William Jefferson, dairy farmer; born White Co., Tenn., July 7, 1852; Irish and English descent; son of Andrew Jackson and Mary Adeline (Cashdollar) WARD; father was a farmer; educated in the public schools of White Co., Tenn., and Zion Academy; moved to Missouri in 1886, and elected to Legislature of the State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4415,134,4062,4419],"tags":[3786,241,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-11773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surname-w","7":"category-white","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-cashdollar","11":"tag-roberts","12":"tag-ward","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12912,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11773\/revisions\/12912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}