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 electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Warner was the older brother of Levi Warner (1831-1911), who represented the fourth electoral district in the U.S. House of Representatives 1876-1879. He attended Wilbraham Academy in Massachusetts. Then he started at Yale College to study law, which he continued at Harvard University until 1854. After his made ​​this year admitted to the bar he began in 1855 to work in Portland in his new profession.

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

1864 Warner was in the second district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1865, the successor to the Democrats James E. English. Since he resigned in 1866 to further candidacy, he was able to complete up to March 3, 1867, only one term in Congress, which was dominated by the aftermath of the civil war, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the political conflicts of the Republican Party with President Andrew Johnson.

After the end of his time in Congress to Warner withdrew from politics and resumed the lawyer. He died in February 1893 in Middletown and was also buried there.

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