9,000 items, consisting of correspondence, speeches, government pamphlets, Congressional records, official reports, bills, lists, clippings, and personal commentaries.
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Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. He attended the public schools, received tutoring under Captain Julien Henri Picot, and studied law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Admitted to the bar in 1894, he practiced at Plymouth, N.C., where he met and married Aileen Latham in 1896. Ward moved to Washington, N.C., in 1904 as a member of the law firm of Ward and Grimes. During his tenure in Congress, Ward served on the Committee of Insular Affairs, Railways and Canals, and Roads.