Warner Lewis Underwood
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| United States Consul to Glasgow, Scotland | |
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In office July 17, 1862 – September 30, 1864 |
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| President | Abraham Lincoln |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 3rd district |
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In office March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1859 |
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| Preceded by | Francis Bristow |
| Succeeded by | Francis Bristow |
| Member of the Kentucky Senate | |
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In office 1849-1853 |
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| Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives | |
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In office 1848 |
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Warner Lewis Underwood August 7, 1808 Goochland County, Virginia |
| Died | March 12, 1872 (aged 63) Warren County, Kentucky |
| Resting place | Fairview Cemetery |
| Political party | American |
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Whig |
| Spouse(s) | Lucy Craig Henry |
| Relations | Brother of Joseph Rogers Underwood |
| Children | Fanny Underwood Grider, Lucy W. Underwood McCann, Juliette Western Long, Josie Underwood Nazro, Henry Underwood, Warner Underwood, Mary Underwood Crump |
| Residence | Mount Air plantation |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia at Charlottesville |
| Profession | Lawyer |
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Warner Lewis Underwood (August 7, 1808 – March 12, 1872) was an attorney, state legislator and U.S. Representative from Kentucky. Like his brother Joseph Rogers Underwood (who had represented the same Kentucky district a decade previously), he was a Unionist before the American Civil War, and during the war (in which his plantation was destroyed), he served as U.S. Consul in Glasgow, Scotland.
Born in Goochland County, Virginia, on August 7, 1808, to John Underwood (1767-1837), a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and his wife Frances Rogers (d.1809), he had several older brothers and sisters. His grandfather Thomas Underwood (1740-1815) had been a colonel in Goochland County during the American Revolutionary War, and also served on the Committee of Safety. His older brother Joseph Rogers Underwood had moved to Kentucky five years before he was born, and represented Kentucky's 3rd Congressional district a decade before Warner Underwood.
Warner Underwood moved to Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky in 1825, but returned to Charlottesville, Virginia to study law at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, graduating in 1829.
He married Lucy Craig Henry (1816-1893), daughter of an engineer on the Green-Barren River improvement project in Bowling Green's Christ Episcopal Church in 1831. Although born in Kentucky, her lineage also included the First Families of Virginia, and her grandfather William Henry (1761-1824) had served as a private under Col. Harry Lee during the American Revolution. Eight of their children survived to adulthood, including Fanny R. Underwood Grider (1833-1901)(who married the son of U.S. Congressman Henry Grider), Lucy Underwood McCann (whose husband Ferdinand J. McCann moved to California and became a judge in Santa Cruz), Juliette Underwood Western Long (1835-1909) (who married a Confederate Kentucky Cavalry Colonel), Joanna Louisa Underwood Nazro (1840-1923)(whose husband was an officer of the 26th Illinois Infantry), Warner Underwood (1845-1874), Henry Lewis Underwood (1848-1925) and Mary Underwood Crump (1857-1920).
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