Richard Warner was a U.S. Representative

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 from Tennessee

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Born near Chapel Hill, Tennessee

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, Warner attended the public schools and graduated from Cumberland School of Law

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 at Cumberland University

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, Lebanon, Tennessee

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, in 1858. He was admitted to the bar

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 the same year and commenced practice in Lewisburg, Tennessee

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. He served in the Confederate States Army

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 from 1861-1865 and, after the end of the Civil War, returned to Lewisburg, Tennessee

Lewisburg, Tennessee

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 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.

Warner was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Forty-seventh

47th United States Congress

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 and Forty-eighth

48th United States Congress

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 Congresses (March 4, 1881-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

Lewisburg, Tennessee

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Warner died in Nashville, Tennessee

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, March 4, 1915 and was interred in Warner Cemetery, near Chapel Hill, Tennessee

Chapel Hill, Tennessee

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