Warren Barkley English (May 1, 1840 – January 9, 1913) was an American politician who served one year as a

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from

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from 1894 to 1895.

Biography

Born in

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(now West Virginia), he attended the public schools and Charles Town Academy until June 1861. He served in the Confederate Army during the

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and after the war moved to

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where he attended the California Military Academy. English was elected a member of the board of supervisors of Contra Costa County in 1877 and served four years. He was elected State senator in 1882 and was named a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1884. His brother, William D. English sought the 1890 Democratic nomination for governor of California. The California Democratic State Convention was controlled by

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Boss, Christopher Buckley. Buckley secured the nomination for San Francisco Mayor Edward B. Pond over

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's favorite son, W.D. English. Pond would go on to lose to

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in the general election. Warren English successfully contested as a

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the election of

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to the Fifty-third Congress and took his seat April 4, 1894, serving until March 3, 1895. He was unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress. After leaving Congress, he engaged in the real estate business in Oakland. In 1905, he moved to

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, California where he engaged in

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. He died in

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in 1913 and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California.

References

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# {{DEFAULTSORT:English, Warren B. 1840 births 1913 deaths People from Charles Town, West Virginia Confederate States Army soldiers People of West Virginia in the American Civil War County supervisors in California Democratic Party California state senators Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from California People from Contra Costa County, California People from Sonoma County, California 19th-century American politicians Burials at Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California)