Vespasian Warner

Vespasian Warner ( born April 23, 1842, in Mount Pleasant, DeWitt County, Illinois, † March 31, 1925 in Clinton, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1905 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Already moved in 1843 Vespasian Warner with his parents to Clinton, where he attended the public schools. He then studied at the Lombard University in Galesburg. During the Civil War he served in a volunteer unit from Illinois in the army of the Union, in which he rose to the brevet Major. In 1866 he retired from the military service. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his 1868 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Clinton in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1894 Warner was in the 13th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William McKendree Springer on March 4, 1895. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1905 five legislative sessions. Since 1903, he represented there as a successor of Joseph B. Crowley the 19th district of his state. In his time as a congressman of the Spanish-American War fell from 1898. Since 1897 Warner led the committee to revise the federal laws ( Committee on Revision of the Laws).

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Warner worked as a pension officer between 1905 and 1909. He then worked in Clinton in the real estate industry and in the banking industry. He is also passed on 21 March 1925.