Political Career
Warner then moved his practice to Kansas City where he served as city attorney in 1867, circuit attorney in 1868 and Kansas City Mayor in 1871. He was elected as a Republican to the 49th and 50th Congresses, serving from March 4, 1885 to March 4, 1889, but he was not a candidate for renomination in 1888. Elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1888, Warner unsuccessful ran as the Republican candidate for Missouri Governor in 1892, but served as the United States district attorney for the western district of Missouri in 1882-1884, 1898, and 1902–1905.
In 1905 Warner was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate, serving from March 18, 1905, to March 4, 1911 in the 60th and 61st Congresses, where he was chairman of the Senate Committee on Mississippi River and Its Tributaries, and served on the Inland Waterways Commission. He was not a candidate for reelection.
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