“The Ward 8 was created in 1898 at Boston's venerable Locke-Ober Café to celebrate the election of Martin M. Lomasney, the powerful political boss who controlled the city's eighth ward. The drink was concocted in advance of the official results, such was the confidence in Lomasney's political machine. Ironically, the man himself was a teetotaler. The cocktail became Boston's signature drink and was named one of Esquire magazine's top ten cocktails in 1934.”