Richard Warner (September 19, 1835 – March 4, 1915) was a

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from

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Biography

Born near

Chapel Hill, Tennessee Chapel Hill is a town in northeastern Marshall County, Tennessee, Marshall County, Tennessee, United States. The town was named after Chapel Hill, North Carolina, by settlers from that area. The population was 1,717 as of the 2020 census. Geograp ...

, Warner attended the public schools and graduated from

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Lebanon, Tennessee Lebanon ( ) is the county seat of Wilson County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 38,431 at the 2020 census. Lebanon is located in Middle Tennessee, approximately east of downtown Nashville. Lebanon is part of the Nashville Metro ...

, in 1858. He was

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the same year and commenced practice in

Lewisburg, Tennessee Lewisburg is a city in and the county seat of Marshall County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 12,288 in 2020. Lewisburg is located in Middle Tennessee, fifty miles south of Nashville and fifty-two miles north of Huntsville, Alabam ...

Career

Warner served in the

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from 1861 to 1865 and, after the end of the Civil War, returned to

, to resume the practice of law. He served as delegate to the convention that framed the new constitution of Tennessee in 1870 and served as member of the state house of representatives from 1879 to 1881. Elected as a

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to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses, Warner served from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1885. He served as chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining (Forty-eighth Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1884, and resumed the practice of law in

Death

Warner died in

Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and List of municipalities in Tennessee, most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County in Middle Tennessee, locat ...

, March 4, 1915, and is interred at Warner Cemetery, near

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Warner, Richard 1835 births 1915 deaths People from Chapel Hill, Tennessee People of Tennessee in the American Civil War Confederate States Army personnel Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee People from Lewisburg, Tennessee 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives 19th-century members of the Tennessee General Assembly