Complex sentence: Ward was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4,1883--March 3,1887), after which he resumed the practice of law in Lafayette, where he died January 1,1892.
Split into simpler sentences: Ward was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4,1883--March 3,1887). Instead, he resumed the practice of his profession in Lafayette, Indiana, where he died January 1,1892.