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John Elliott Ward
United States Minister to the Qing Empire
In office August 10, 1859 – December 15, 1860
President	James Buchanan
Preceded by	William B. Reed
Succeeded by	Anson Burlingame
Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives
In office 1853–1854
Preceded by	James A. Meriwether
Succeeded by	William H. Stiles
31st Mayor of Savannah, Georgia
In office 1853–1854
Preceded by	Richard Wayne
Succeeded by	Edward C. Anderson
Personal details
Born	John Elliott Ward (1814-10-02)October 2, 1814 Sunbury, Georgia
Died	November 30, 1902(1902-11-30) (aged 88) Dorchester, Georgia
Political party	Democratic Party
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John Elliott Ward (October 2, 1814 – November 30, 1902) was an American politician and diplomat.

Biography

John Elliott Ward was born in Sunbury, Georgia on October 2, 1814.

He served as United States Attorney for Georgia, mayor of Savannah, Georgia, speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, president of the Georgia State Senate, president of the 1856 Democratic National Convention, and United States Minister to China under James Buchanan. He resigned from his diplomatic post shortly after the outbreak of the American Civil War, returned to Savannah, and after the war, moved to New York City, where he practiced law for several years.

He was an anti-secessionist and spoke against the South leaving the Union. Ironically, he appears on the T-23 Confederate 10-dollar note.

He died in Dorchester (now Midway), Georgia on November 30, 1902.

See also

• List of speakers of the Georgia House of Representatives

References

1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. I. James T. White & Company. 1893. p. 373. Retrieved April 19, 2021 – via Google Books.
2. ^ "Death List of a Day: John Elliott Ward Dead". The New York Times. Savannah, Georgia. December 1, 1902. p. 9. Retrieved April 19, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

• The Confederate Career of John Elliott Ward

v t e United States ambassadors to China
Great Qing Empire
Commissioner	Cushing (Envoy) Everett Davis Parker (chargé d’affaires) Marshall McLane Parker
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Reed Ward Burlingame Browne Low Avery Seward Angell Young Denby Conger Rockhill Calhoun
Republic of China (Beijing/Nanjing)
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Calhoun Reinsch Crane Schurman MacMurray Johnson
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Johnson Gauss Hurley Stuart
Republic of China (Taipei)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Rankin Drumright Kirk Wright McConaughy Unger
People's Republic of China
Chiefs of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing	Bruce Bush Gates Woodcock
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Woodcock Hummel Lord Lilley Roy Sasser Prueher Randt Huntsman Locke Baucus Branstad Burns
See also: American Institute in Taiwan

v t e Speakers of the Georgia House of Representatives
N. W. Jones Whitefield N. W. Jones W. Glascock Brownson Gibbons Saltus J. Clay Habersham Houstoun N. W. Jones Gibbons James Habersham Joseph Habersham Gibbons Brownson Powell S. Jones Gibbons Napier Stevens D. Meriwether Jackson Whitaker Iverson Whitaker Adams Witt Adams Daniel Adams Abercrombie Murray Hudson Jourdan Hull T. Glascock Joseph Day C. J. Jenkins Wofford C.J. Jenkins Anderson J. Meriwether Ward Stiles Underwood Irvin Williams Akin Hardeman McWhorter J. M. Smith Cumming Bacon Hardeman Bacon Garrard W. A. Little A. S. Clay Howell Atkinson Fleming H. A. Jenkins J. D. Little Morris Slaton Holder Burwell Holder Neill Russell Tucker Rivers Harris Evans Harris Hand Moate G. L. Smith G. T. Smith G. L. Smith Murphy Coleman Richardson Burkhalter Ralston Jones (acting) Burns

• 1814 births
• 1902 deaths
• Democratic Party members of the Georgia House of Representatives
• Democratic Party Georgia (U.S. state) state senators
• Georgia (U.S. state) lawyers
• Ambassadors of the United States to China
• Mayors of Savannah, Georgia
• New York (state) lawyers
• 19th-century American diplomats
• People of the Second Opium War
• 19th-century members of the Georgia General Assembly