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WARNER, Hiram, jurist, born in Hampshire county, Massachusetts, 29 October, 1802; died in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1881. He received an academical education, removed to Georgia in 1819, and taught there for three years. He was admitted to the bar in 1825, and began practice in Knoxville, Georgia. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1828-'31, was elected in 1833 a judge of the superior court of Georgia, re-elected in 1836, and served till 1840. He was appointed in 1845 a judge of the supreme court of the state, served till 1853, when he resigned, and was elected to congress in 1855. He was a member of the Charleston Democratic convention in 1860, and opposed the secession movement there and in the Georgia secession convention of 1861. After the war he sustained the reconstruction acts of congress. On the reorganization of the judiciary of the state, he was appointed a judge of the supreme court, and in 1872 he was appointed chief justice of that court.
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