Richard Warner (politician)

Richard Warner

Richard Warner (born September 19, 1835 in Chapel Hill , Marshall County , Tennessee , †  March 4, 1915 in Nashville , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1881 and 1885 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Richard Warner attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree at Cumberland University in Lebanon and his admission as a lawyer in 1858, he began to work in Lewisburg in his new profession. During the Civil War he was a soldier in the Confederation Army between 1861 and 1865 .

After the war he continued his work as a lawyer. He also began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1870 he was a member of an assembly to revise the state constitution; from 1879 to 1881 Warner was a member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee . In the congressional elections of 1880 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded John Morgan Bright on March 4, 1881 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1885 . From 1883 he was chairman of the mining committee. In 1884, Richard Warner was not re-elected.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Warner returned to work as a lawyer. Politically, he no longer appeared. He died in Nashville on March 4, 1915 and was buried in his native Chapel Hill.

Web links

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

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