Ward V. Tolbert

Ward Vanderhoof Tolbert (April 28, 1877 – April 11, 1946) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life Tolbert was born on April 28, 1877, in Weston, New York, the son of Isaac Little Tolbert and Celia Vanderhoof. His father was a farmer and sheriff.

Tolbert spent the first 19 years of his life on his father's farm. He graduated from Cook Academy in Montour Falls in 1897. He taught school in 1898, and in 1899 he was deputy sheriff of Schuyler County. While in the Senate, he introduced a bill for the use of voting machines and sponsored a city home rule act. He resided in Washington Heights at the time. He later moved to Pelham Manor, where he was Pelham Town Republican Chairman and a member of the New York Republican State Committee.

Tolbert was president of the board of trustees of the Huguenot Memorial Church in Pelham Manor. He was a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Westchester County Bar Association, the New York City Bar Association, the Freemasons, the Downtown Athletic Club, and the Pelham Country Club. In 1906, he married Edith Laura Williams of Rochester. They had a daughter, Kathryn.