Warren B. English

Warren Barkley English ( born May 1, 1840 in Charlestown, Jefferson County, Virginia; † January 9, 1913 in Santa Rosa, California ) was an American politician. In the years 1894 and 1895 he represented the State of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born in what is now West Virginia Warren English attended the common schools and the Charlestown Academy. During the Civil War he served in the army of the Confederacy. After the war he moved to Oakland, California. In his new home he graduated from the California Military Academy. Then he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1877 and 1881 he was a member of the county council in Contra Costa County; in 1882 he was elected to the Senate from California. In July 1884 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was nominated to the Grover Cleveland as a presidential candidate.

In congressional election was subject to the English Republican Samuel G. Hilborn. He appealed against the outcome of the election is a contradiction. When this was granted, he could take his seat in Congress on April 4, 1894. But since he lost to in 1894 Hilborn, he could only finish the current legislative period to March 3, 1895. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Warren English worked in the real estate sector in Oakland. Since 1905 he dealt in Sonoma County with the wine. He died on January 9, 1913 in Santa Rosa and was buried in Oakland.