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Ward Cleaver, played by Hugh Beaumont
Ward is husband to June and father to Wally and "Beaver". He grew up on a farm in Shaker Heights (an actual location in Ohio) and dated June as a youth. The couple attended State college together. He served as an engineer with the Seabees during WWII in the Pacific islands. Ward has a white collar job in a corporation with offices in Mexico and New York. The exact nature of his duties are never specified.. He wears a suit to work, carries a briefcase, has a secretary, and in one episode is involved in a women's marketing survey. His boastful co-worker Fred Rutherford tries his patience time and again. Ward is called upon in almost every episode to lecture his sons on their misbehavior and to dole out punishments such as pulling weeds or living for a week without television. Ward's globe-trotting Uncle Billy appears in a few episodes, making June uncomfortable with his descriptions of a vagabond lifestyle. Ward plays golf at a nearby country club and attends weddings, barbecues, and his sons' school plays and baseball games. |
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