1.   Joe Burke, ward boss and alderman, begat Edward Burke, ward boss and alderman.

2.   Many of the Daley aldermen are ward bosses.

3.   More important was the backing of Frank Keenan, the county assessor and a far North Side ward boss.

4.   Service and favors, the staples of the precinct captain and his ward boss.

5.   At another rally, Cardenas heard villagers accuse a ward boss from the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party, or the PRI, of purloining local archaeological treasures.

6.   God is a formidable ward boss, and people whose politics flow from their faith make unusually dedicated grunts.

7.   The key is Ralph Reed, the baby-faced ward boss of the Christian Coalition.