On This Day In Alabama History: Former U.S. Senator And Industrialist Willard Warner Died

Alabama News Center | November 23, 2018 @ 5:00 am

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

Nov. 23, 1906: U.S. Senator Willard Warner, who represented Alabama from 1868 to 1871, died on this day in 1906.

Born and raised in Ohio, Warner took a different path to Alabama. He went to California for the 1849 gold rush, returned to Ohio to become a grocer, then to New Jersey where he got into manufacturing. He later served as a Union officer during the Civil War.

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