Richard Warner

Richard Warner (September 19, 1835 – March 4, 1915) was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.

Biography Born near Chapel Hill, Tennessee, Warner attended the public schools and graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1857. He was admitted to the bar in 1858 and commenced practice in Lewisburg, Tennessee.

Career Warner served in the Confederate States Army from 1861 to 1865 and, after the end of the Civil War, returned to Lewisburg, Tennessee, 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 Democrat 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 Lewisburg, Tennessee.

Death Warner died in Nashville, Tennessee, March 4, 1915, and is interred at Warner Cemetery, near Chapel Hill, Tennessee.