John W. Warner

John W. Warner, born in 1927, Republican member of the United States Senate from Virginia (1979- ). Warner was born in Washington, D.C. He received a bachelor's degree from Washington and Lee University in 1949 and a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1953. He served in the United States Navy during the latter years of World War II (1939-1945) and in the Marine Corps from 1950 to 1952. He was appointed assistant U.S. attorney in 1956, a position he held until the administration of President Dwight David Eisenhower ended in 1961. He was appointed by President Richard Nixon to be undersecretary of the navy in 1969, and then secretary of the navy in 1972. Warner was elected to the Senate in 1978, beating the Democratic nominee, former Virginia Attorney General Andrew Miller by just 4,721 votes—the smallest margin in a Senate race in Virginia history to that time.