Warner, William
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1840 in Wisconsin. He served three and a half years in the union army, in the thirty-third and forty-fourth Wisconsin infantry, during the civil war. In 1867 he was elected city attorney of Kansas city; and in 1868 was elected circuit attorney; and was mayor of Kansas City in 1871. He was a presidential elector in 1872; was appointed United States attorney for the western district of Missouri in 1882; and in 1885 received the votes of the republican members of the Missouri legislature for United States senator. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a republican.