Samuel L. Warner

Samuel L. Warner

Samuel Larkin Warner (born June 14, 1828 in Wethersfield , Connecticut , †  February 6, 1893 in Middletown , Connecticut) was an American politician . Between 1865 and 1867 he represented the second constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Warner was the older brother of Levi Warner (1831-1911), who between 1876 and 1879 represented the fourth electoral district in the US House of Representatives. He attended Wilbraham Academy in Massachusetts . He then began to study law at Yale College , which he continued at Harvard University until 1854. After his admission to the bar that year, he began working in his new profession in Portland in 1855 .

Politically, Warner was a member of the Republican Party founded in 1854 . In 1858 he was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives. In 1860 he moved to Middletown; there he was mayor between 1862 and 1866. In 1864, 1888 and 1892 he was a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions , at which Abraham Lincoln and later Benjamin Harrison were nominated as the party's presidential candidate.

In 1864 Warner was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the Second District of Connecticut . There he took over on March 4, 1865, succeeding Democrat James E. English . Since he resigned in 1866 for another candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1867, by the consequences of the civil war , the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the political conflicts of the Republican Party with President Andrew Johnson was marked .

After his tenure in Congress, Warner retired from politics and returned to work as a lawyer. He died in Middletown in February 1893 and was buried there.

Web links

• Samuel L. Warner in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Samuel L. Warner in the database of Find a Grave (English)