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John Warner
John William Warner (born February 18, 1927) is an American attorney and former politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and a five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1979 to 2009. He currently works for the law firm of Hogan Lovells, where he had previously worked before joining the United States Department of Defense as the Under Secretary of the Navy during the presidency of Richard Nixon in 1969. Warner was the sixth husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor, whom he married before being elected to the Senate. He is a veteran of the Second World War and Korean War, and was one of five World War II veterans serving in the Senate at the time of his retirement. He did not seek reelection in 2008, and remains, to date, the last Republican to have been a U.S. Senator from Virginia.
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1927-02-18
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Washington, D.C., U.S.
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Washington_and_Lee_University
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Elizabeth_Taylor
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Culpeper County, VACulpeper Star Exponent

COMMENTARY: Sen. John Warner was a champion of Chesapeake Bay

The front-page articles in Virginia mourning the passing of former Sen. John Warner were rightfully long on superlatives. Sen. Warner was described as an “unmatched leader,” a “giant,” and a “dear friend.” To me, he was all that and more. His reputation as a political maverick was well-documented. He was...
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COMMENTARY: Sen. John Warner was a champion of Chesapeake Bay

The front-page articles in Virginia mourning the passing of former Sen. John Warner were rightfully long on superlatives. Sen. Warner was described as an “unmatched leader,” a “giant,” and a “dear friend.” To me, he was all that and more. His reputation as a political maverick was well-documented. He was...
Virginia StateWashington Post

John Warner and John Hager: Two Virginia statesmen who loomed large

Sophia A. Nelson, a former House Republican Congressional Committee counsel, is a member of the board of directors of Unite America. She is the author or “ePluribus One: Reclaiming Our Founders’ Vision for a United America.”. How we are remembered in death says a lot about how we lived. Virginia...
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SC Entrepreneurial Insights from John Warner

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur whose insights are published online at Medium under the title “Control Your Destiny”. He is based in Greenville, S.C. After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In...
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Fauquier County, VAprincewilliamtimes.com

Former Sen. John Warner: ‘My ties are to Fauquier County’

The political world remembers former Sen. John Warner as a warm statesman who treated everyone with respect. On his passing last week, Fauquier’s horse country remembered him as an equestrian as well. Former senator John Warner remembered as a ‘towering institution’ of Va. politics, an ‘independent voice’. Warner was well-known...
York County, VADaily Press

Letters for June 5: Sen. John Warner ‘will always be affectionately remembered’

Re “Warner ‘had the touch’” (Our Views, May 27): I had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with the late U.S. Sen. John W. Warner while he was in Virginia Beach at an event endorsing my cousin, Will Sessoms, for reelection. Knowing my Navy background, my cousin called me over to meet him. Surrounded by admirers and supporters, the senator made me feel like I was the only person in the room. We had a strong common bond in that we both had been enlisted and commissioned officers.
Virginia StateFairfax Times

John Warner passes away at 94

Former Republican Senator John Warner has passed away at the age of 94. Warner had served five terms representing the state of Virginia in the U.S. Senate from 1979 to 2009. He died of heart failure at his home in Alexandria. Born in Washington D.C. in February 1927, Warner had...
Alexandria, VAalextimes.com

Longtime U.S. Senator John Warner dies at 94

John Warner, a former Republican U.S. senator, died at his Alexandria home on May 25 due to a heart ailment. He was 94. Widely known throughout his five terms for his innate ability to garner support on both sides of the political aisle, Warner ultimately left his mark as someone who operated with patience, curiosity and a deep mastery of the Senate process.
PoliticsWashington Post

John Warner was a true statesman

The May 27 front-page obituary for former senator and former Navy secretary John W. Warner (R-Va.), “5-term senator from Va. often went his own way,” was worthy of his value to his state and his country. I have wonderful memories of his seriousness and humor, beginning with Hogan and Hartson, where I was, for a time, its sole receptionist, and continuing through his Senate service.
Fauquier County, VAFauquier Times-Democrat

Former Sen. John Warner: ‘My ties are to Fauquier County’

The political world remembers former Sen. John Warner as a warm statesman who treated everyone with respect. On his passing last week, Fauquier’s horse country remembered him as an equestrian as well. Warner was well-known and widely respected as a rider, landowner, farmer, foxhunter and racing official. He hunted regularly...
Stafford County, VAFree Lance-Star

ROB HEDELT: Statesman John Warner made an impression

Several different scenes popped into my head last week when I learned that former U.S. Sen. John Warner had died. One was from decades ago and happened in Lexington while I was a student at Washington and Lee University. The vision is locked in memory of him coming into a school building with Elizabeth Taylor on his arm.
Roanoke County, VAGoDanRiver.com

The lost grace of John Warner

When former U.S. Sen. John Warner passed away last week at age 94, there were many tributes about how Warner represented a bygone era of politics that was less polarizing and more, well, gentlemanly. We use that term advisedly because Warner was not one to run an old boy’s club....
Congress & CourtsFalls Church News-Press

Beyer Issues Statement On Passing of John Warner

U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) issued the following statement earlier this week on the passing of former U.S. Senator John Warner:. “John Warner was a great American who served his country in World War II, the Korean War, and as Navy Secretary, and served Virginia in the Senate for thirty years. I am proud to have been his friend, and he was instrumental in my career and in those of so many others. John’s bipartisan spirit that put country and Commonwealth over party epitomizes what Virginians want in their leaders, and his fair mindedness and generosity were legendary. He was a lovely man, and I will miss him.”
Arlington County, VAInside Nova

During Senate career, John Warner went 3-for-5 in Arlington

[Sun Gazette Newspapers provides content to, but otherwise is unaffiliated with, InsideNoVa or Rappahannock Media LLC.]. John Warner, the five-term Republican U.S. senator from Virginia who died May 21 at age 94, won the Arlington vote three times – 1984, 1990 and 2002 – but fell short twice. In 1978,...