Warner Underwood

Warner Lewis Underwood ( born August 7, 1808 Goochland County, Virginia; † March 12, 1872 at Bowling Green, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Warner Underwood was the younger brother of Joseph R. Underwood (1791-1876), who represented 1835-1853 the state of Kentucky in both chambers of Congress. He attended the public schools in his homeland. In 1825 he came to Kentucky. Then he studied until 1829 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. After a subsequent study of law and its 1830 made ​​admission to the bar he began working in Bowling Green in this profession.

In 1834, Warner Underwood moved to the then still Mexican Texas. There he was attorney general for the eastern part of that State under the Texas independence. In 1840 he returned to Bowling Green, where he also began a career in politics, initially joined the American Party. In 1848 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Kentucky; 1849-1853 he was in the state Senate. In the congressional elections of 1854 Underwood was in the third electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Francis Bristow on March 4, 1855. After his reelection in 1856 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1859 two legislative sessions. These were marked by tensions in the run-up to the Civil War.

In 1858, Underwood opted not to run again. Between 1862 and 1864 he was American consul in Glasgow, Scotland. After his return to the United States, he practiced first as a lawyer in San Francisco. In 1866 he returned to Kentucky, where he also worked as a lawyer. Warner Underwood died on March 12, 1872 near Bowling Green; where he was also buried.