Samuel L. Warner

Who was Samuel L. Warner?

Samuel Larkin Warner was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut, brother of Levi Warner.

Born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, Warner attended Wilbraham Academy, Wilbraham, Massachusetts, and the law department of Yale College. He graduated from the law department of Harvard University in 1854. He was admitted to the bar in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1854. He commenced the practice of law in Portland, Connecticut, in 1855. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1858. He moved to Middletown in 1860. He served there as mayor 1862-1866. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1864, 1888, and 1892.

Warner was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination. He resumed the practice of law. He died in Middletown, Connecticut, on February 6, 1893. He was interred in Indian Hill Cemetery.