Hiram Warner

Hiram Warner

Hiram Warner (born October 29, 1802 in Williamsburg , Hampshire County , Massachusetts , †  June 30, 1881 in Atlanta , Georgia ) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After a good education, Hiram Warner moved to Georgia in 1819, where he worked as a teacher for three years. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1825, he began to work in his new profession in Knoxville . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1828 and 1831 he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives . In 1830 he moved his residence and law firm first to Talbotton and then to Greenville .

Between 1833 and 1840 Warner was a judge in the Superior Court of Georgia ; from 1846 to 1853 he served as a judge on the highest court in his state. In the congressional elections of 1854 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded William Barton Wade Dent on March 4, 1855 . Since he refused to run again in 1856, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1857 . This was shaped by the events and discussions leading up to the civil war .

Between 1865 and 1867 Warner was a district judge in Coweta County . In the years 1867 and 1868 and between 1872 and 1880 he chaired the Supreme Court of Georgia as Chief Justice , succeeding Joseph Henry Lumpkin . He then retired, which he could not enjoy for much longer because he died on June 30, 1881.

Web links

• Hiram Warner in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Hiram Warner in the database of Find a Grave (English)