Newark City Museum
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Marcus L. Ward Memorial
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Marcus L. Ward 20th Governor of New Jersey Born: November 9, 1812 Served: January 16, 1866 to January 19, 1869 Died: April 25, 1884 Buried: Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, New Jersey Descended from John Ward, one of the original founders of Newark in 1666, Ward's father Moses Ward was a wealthy candle manufacturer. He was a Anti-slavery Republican who even went to Bleeding Kansas in 1858. He was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago that choose Abe Lincoln as their candidate. He was governor after the Civil War and he started the first Veterans Home in New Jersey to care for injured soldiers from the Civil War. The Republicans nominated Ward for Governor in 1862, but he lost to Democrat Joel Parker by one of the largest margins in state history. During the Civil War, Ward became known as the 'soldier's friend' for his many donations he made to help the soldiers. After the Civil War was over, there was a major swing toward the Republican Party with the feeling they were responsible for winning the war. It was a forgone conclusion that a Republican would be the next governor. In the Republican convention, Ward defeated grain merchant Alexander G. Cattell. In the general election Ward easily was elected governor for one term, serving to 1869. The Republicans also swept both houses of the state legislature. After a Democratic-controlled legislature had not passed the Thirteenth Amendment which abolished slavery, Ward worked with the new Republican-controlled New Jersey Legislature to secure state passage of both the Thirteenth and the Fourteenth Amendment, with its Due Process and Equal Protection clauses giving citizenship to former slaves. In 1873, Ward was elected from New Jersey's 6th District to the U.S. House of Representatives and served one term.
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Red bricks look awesome gleaming in the sun
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