Cherokee-Autauga-Mobile County AlArchives Biographies.....Warner, Willard September 4, 1826 - November 23, 1906
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Author: Congressional Biography


Willard Warner, a United States Senator from Alabama; born in Granville, 
Licking County, Ohio, on September 4, 1826; attended a country school near 
Roseville, Muskingum County, Ohio; graduated from Marietta College, Ohio, in 
1845; engaged in mercantile pursuits at Cincinnati in 1852 and later became 
manager of the Newark (Ohio) Machine Works; served in the Union Army during the 
Civil War; brevetted brigadier general and major general in 1865; served two 
years in the Ohio senate; moved to Prattville, Autauga County, Ala., in 1867 
and engaged in cotton planting; member, State house of representatives 1868; 
held several local offices; upon the readmission of the State of Alabama to 
representation was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and 
served from July 13, 1868, to March 3, 1871; unsuccessful candidate for 
reelection; collector of customs of the port of Mobile, Ala., 1871-1872; 
declined the appointment as Governor of New Mexico in 1872 and also that of 
Minister to Argentina; moved to Tecumseh, Ala., in 1873 and organized the 
Tecumseh Iron Co., of which he served as general manager; in 1890 moved to 
Chattanooga, Tenn., where he engaged in banking and was a director in several 
corporations; member, Tennessee house of representatives 1897-1898; died in 
Chattanooga, Tenn., November 23, 1906; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery, 
Newark, Ohio. 






Additional Comments:
Willard Warner was a Republican Reconstruction Era public official in Alabama, 
and, represented the state as a United States Senator from 1868 to 1871. By 
1873 he was involved with a variety of entrepreneurial basic iron and steel 
enterprise developers at Tecumseh near Spring Garden in Cherokee County 
Alabama. Among his investors was William Tecumseh Sherman of Civil War fame. For
more information see: bibliography; Ryan, John B., Jr. “Willard Warner and the 
Rise and Fall of the Iron Industry in Tecumseh, Alabama.” Alabama Review 24 
(October 1971): 261-79; Watson, Elbert L. “Willard Warner.” In Alabama United 
States Senators, pp. 77-79. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, 1982. 

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