Artemas Ward

Artemas Ward (November 26, 1727 – October 28, 1800) was an American major general in the American Revolutionary War. He was a Congressman from Massachusetts. 
Ward was the Speaker of the Massachusetts House in 1785. He was elected twice to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1791 to 1795.
President John Adams called him "universally esteemed, beloved and confided in by his army and his country".