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WARNER, Willard, senator, born in Granville, Ohio, 4 September, 1826. he was graduated at Marietta college in 1845, went to California in 1849, engaged in mercantile business in Cincinnati after his return in 1852, and a few years later became general manager of the Newark machine-works. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1860. In December, 1861, he joined the volunteer army as major of the 76th Ohio infantry, and was engaged at Fort Donelson, at the siege of Corinth, and in the Vicksburg campaign. In 1863 he became lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, which he led from Vicksburg to Chattanooga, and through the battles of Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge, and at Ringgold, where he broke through General Patrick Cleburne's strongly posted lines. In the Atlanta campaign he served on the staff of General William T. Sherman as inspector-general. On 20 October, 1864, he was appointed colonel of the 180th Ohio volunteers. He was brevetted brigadier- and major-general of volunteers in March, 1865 for gallant and meritorious services, and was mustered out in , July. He served one term in the Ohio state senate immediately after the war, removed to the south in 1867, where he engaged in cotton-planting, was a member of the Alabama legislature in the succeeding year, and was elected to the United States senate as a Republican from Alabama on the reorganization of the state government, serving from 25 July, 1868, till 3 March, 1871, when his term ended. He was collector of customs at Mobile, Alabama, from July, 1871, till February, 1872, when he declined the appointment of governor of New Mexico, as he did also that of minister to the Argentine Republic. He was a member of the Republican national convention of 1868, of the Cincinnati convention that nominated Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, and of all that have since been held. In 1873 he organized the Tecumseh iron company, of which he has since been the general manager, and in 1887 he was elected president and manager of the Nashville iron, steel, and charcoal company. He resides at Tecumseh, Alabama
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