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{{Short description|American lawyer and politician (1927–2021)}}
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| name                = John Warner
| image               = Warner(R-VA).jpg
| caption             = Official portrait, {{circa|1980}}
| jr/sr               = United States Senator
| state               = [[Virginia]]
| term_start          = January 2, 1979
| term_end            = January 3, 2009
| predecessor         = [[William L. Scott]]
| successor           = [[Mark Warner]]
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| office1             = Chairman of the [[Senate Armed Services Committee]]
| term_start1         = January 3, 2003
| term_end1           = January 3, 2007
| predecessor1        = [[Carl Levin]]
| successor1          = Carl Levin
| term_start2         = January 3, 1999
| term_end2           = June 6, 2001
| predecessor2        = [[Strom Thurmond]]
| successor2          = Carl Levin
| office3             = Chairman of the [[Senate Rules Committee]]
| term_start3         = September 12, 1995
| term_end3           = January 3, 1999
| predecessor3        = [[Ted Stevens]]
| successor3          = [[Mitch McConnell]]
}}
{{Collapsed infobox section end}}
| office4             = 61st [[United States Secretary of the Navy]]
| president4          = [[Richard Nixon]]
| term_start4         = May 4, 1972
| term_end4           = April 8, 1974
| predecessor4        = [[John Chafee]]
| successor4          = [[J. William Middendorf]]
| office5             = [[United States Under Secretary of the Navy]]
| president5          = Richard Nixon
| term_start5         = February 11, 1969
| term_end5           = May 4, 1972
| predecessor5        = [[Charles F. Baird]]
| successor5          = [[Frank P. Sanders]]
| birth_name          = John William Warner III
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1927|2|18}}
| birth_place         = Washington, D.C., U.S.
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|2021|5|25|1927|2|18}}
| death_place         = [[Alexandria, Virginia]], U.S.
| resting_place       = [[Arlington National Cemetery]]
| party               = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| spouse              = {{Ubl
  | {{marriage|Catherine Mellon|1957|1973|end=div}}
  | {{marriage|[[Elizabeth Taylor]]|1976|1982|end=div}}
  | {{marriage|Jeanne Vander Myde|2003}}}}
| children            = 3
| education           = {{Ubl
  | [[Washington and Lee University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) 
  | [[George Washington University]] 
  | [[University of Virginia]] ([[LLB]])}}
| awards              = Knight Commander of the [[Order of the British Empire]]
| signature           = John Warner Signature.svg
| allegiance          = {{flag|United States}}
| branch              = {{Ubl | {{flag|United States Navy}} | {{flag|United States Marine Corps}}}}
| serviceyears        = {{Ubl | 1945–1946 | 1950–1953}}
| rank                = {{Ubl | [[Petty officer third class|Petty Officer (third class)]] (Navy) | [[Captain (United States O-3)|Captain]] (Marines)}}
| unit                = [[1st Marine Aircraft Wing]]
| battles             = {{Ubl | [[World War II]] | [[Korean War]]}}
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'''John William Warner III''' (February 18, 1927 – May 25, 2021) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Virginia]] from 1979 to 2009. A member of the [[United States Republican Party|Republican Party]], he previously served as the [[United States Secretary of the Navy]] from 1972 to 1974. Warner is both the longest serving Republican Senator from Virginia, and the second longest serving Senator from Virginia behind [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Harry F. Byrd Sr.|Harry F. Byrd]]. He served as chairman of the [[Senate Armed Services Committee]] from 1999 to 2001, and from 2003 to 2007. Warner also served as the chairman of the [[Senate Rules Committee]] from 1995 to 1999.

Warner was 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.<ref name=gulftimes-09-17-a>{{Cite news|title= Veterans' defiance a nightmare for Bush|date=September 17, 2006|url=http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.aspx?cu_no=2&item_no=108178&version=1&template_id=46&parent_id=26}}</ref> He did not seek [[2008 United States Senate election in Virginia|reelection in 2008]]. After leaving the Senate, he worked for the law firm of [[Hogan Lovells]], where he had previously been employed before joining the [[United States Department of Defense]] as the [[Under Secretary of the Navy]] during the [[presidency of Richard Nixon]] in 1969.

As of 2025, Warner is the last Republican to represent Virginia in the Senate, as well the only Republican Senator from Virginia to serve more than one term.

==Early life and education==

John William Warner III<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/elections/2002/general/local_va.html|title=General Elections 2002|newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=November 9, 2020}}</ref> was born on February 18, 1927, in Washington, D.C., to Martha Budd and Dr. John Warner Jr., an obstetrician-gynecologist in Washington.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/us/politics/john-warner-genteel-senator-from-virginia-dies-at-94.html|title=John Warner, Genteel Senator from Virginia, Dies at 94|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 26, 2021 |last1=Hulse |first1=Carl }}</ref> He grew up in the District, where he attended the elite [[St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.)|St. Albans School]] before graduating from [[Jackson-Reed High School|Woodrow Wilson High School]] in February 1945.

Warner enlisted in the [[United States Navy]] during World War II in January 1945, shortly before his 18th birthday. He served until the following year, leaving as a [[petty officer third class]]. He went to college at [[Washington and Lee University]], where he was a member of [[Beta Theta Pi]], graduating in 1949; he then entered the [[University of Virginia Law School]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021|title=Interment of Senator John W. Warner III, U.S. Senator and 61st Secretary of the Navy|url=https://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/Messages-Display/Article/2667104/interment-of-senator-john-w-warner-iii-us-senator-and-61st-secretary-of-the-navy/|website=Marines.mil}}</ref>

Warner joined the [[U.S. Marine Corps]] in October 1950, after the outbreak of the [[Korean War]], and served in [[Korea]] as a ground aircraft maintenance officer with the [[1st Marine Aircraft Wing]]. His service number was 050488.<ref>{{cite AV media|people=Sen. John Warner|date=July 27, 2006|title=Marine Corps Commandant Nomination Hearing|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?193611-1/marine-corps-commandant-nomination-hearing|medium=Video|location=Washington, D. C.|publisher=C-SPAN}}</ref> He continued in the Marine Corps [[Military reserves|Reserves]] after the war, eventually reaching the rank of [[Captain (United States)|captain]]. He then resumed his studies, taking courses at the [[George Washington University]] before receiving his law degree from UVA in 1953. That year, he became a [[law clerk]] to Chief Judge [[E. Barrett Prettyman]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit|D.C. Circuit]]. In 1956, he became an assistant prosecutor in the office of the [[United States Attorney for the District of Columbia]].

In 1960, he entered private law practice and joined Hogan & Hartson (now [[Hogan Lovells]]). In the [[1960 United States presidential election]], he served as an aide to [[VPOTUS|Vice President]] [[Richard Nixon]]'s campaign team.

==Secretary of the Navy==
[[File:John W Warner Sec of Navy.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.8|John W. Warner as Secretary of the Navy]]

After giving substantial funds and time to Nixon's successful presidential campaign in 1968, Warner was appointed Under Secretary of the Navy in the Nixon Administration in February 1969. On May 4, 1972, he succeeded [[John H. Chafee]] as [[Secretary of the Navy]]. Thereafter Warner was appointed by President [[Gerald Ford]] as delegate to the [[Law of the Sea]] talks, and he negotiated the [[U.S.-Soviet Incidents at Sea agreement]] which became a [[cause célèbre]] of pro-[[Détente]] doves in [[U.S.-Soviet relations]]. He was subsequently appointed by [[Gerald Ford]] to the post of Director of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/452.html | title=Records of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration [ARBA] | date=August 15, 2016 |publisher=[[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]] |accessdate=2022-08-08}}</ref>

==U.S. Senator==

Following Ford's defeat, Warner began to consider political office for himself.  He entered politics in the [[1978 United States Senate election in Virginia|1978 Virginia election for the U.S. Senate]]. Despite the publicity of being Elizabeth Taylor's husband and the large amounts of money Warner used in his campaign for the nomination, he finished second at the state [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] (GOP) convention to the far more conservative politician [[Richard D. Obenshain]]. Much of this loss was due to his perceived liberal political stances, especially his soft approach to U.S.-Soviet relations. In contrast, Obenshain was a noted anti-Soviet, a hardline anti-communist, and an opponent of other liberal policies including the [[Great Society]] and much of the [[Civil Rights Movement]]. However, when Obenshain died two months later in a plane crash, Warner was chosen to replace him and narrowly won the general election over [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Andrew P. Miller]], a former [[Attorney General of Virginia]]. He was in the Senate until January 3, 2009. Despite his less conservative policy stances, Warner managed to be the second longest-serving senator in Virginia's history, behind only [[Harry F. Byrd Sr.]] and by far the longest-serving Republican Senator from the state. On August 31, 2007, Warner announced that he would not seek re-election in [[2008 United States Senate election in Virginia|2008]].<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/01/washington/01virginia-.html|title = Virginia Senator Will Retire in 2008|last = Toner|first = Robin|work = [[The New York Times]]|date = September 1, 2007|accessdate = May 26, 2021}}</ref>

His committee memberships included the [[Environment and Public Works Committee]], the [[Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions]], and the [[Senate Select Committee on Intelligence]]. As the chairman of the [[Senate Armed Services Committee]], he protected and increased the flow of billions of dollars into the Virginia economy each year via the state's military installations and shipbuilding firms which served his reelection efforts in every cycle.

[[File:John Warner 1984 (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Warner in 1984]]
Warner was quite moderate, especially in comparison to most Republican Senators from the South. He was among the minority of Republicans to support some [[gun control]] laws. He voted for the [[Brady Bill]] and, in 1999, was one of only five Republicans to vote to close the so-called [[gun show loophole]]. While Warner voted against the [[1994 Assault Weapons Ban]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 103rd Congress - 2nd Session|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=2&vote=00295|access-date=2021-06-16|website=www.senate.gov}}</ref> he co-sponsored efforts by [[Sen. Dianne Feinstein]] to reauthorize the ban in 2004<ref>{{Cite web|last=Feinstein|first=Dianne|date=2004-02-24|title=Cosponsors - S.2109 - 108th Congress (2003-2004): Assault Weapons Ban Reauthorization Act of 2004|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/2109/cosponsors|access-date=2021-06-16|website=www.congress.gov}}</ref> and 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Feinstein|first=Dianne|date=2005-03-14|title=Cosponsors - S.620 - 109th Congress (2005-2006): Assault Weapons Ban Reauthorization Act of 2005|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/620/cosponsors|access-date=2021-06-16|website=www.congress.gov}}</ref>

Warner supported<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&session=1&vote=00048|title=U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 108th Congress - 1st Session|website=www.senate.gov}}</ref> the ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' decision establishing [[abortion rights]] and supported [[embryonic stem cell]] research,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00206|title=U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress - 2nd Session|website=www.senate.gov}}</ref> although he received high ratings from [[anti-abortion]] groups because he voted in favor of many abortion restrictions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/bio/keyvotes/?id=595&lvl=C|title=Elected Officials|website=www.capwiz.com|access-date=November 11, 2006|archive-date=November 20, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061120104923/http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/bio/keyvotes/?id=595&lvl=C|url-status=dead}}</ref> On June 15, 2004, Warner was among the minority of his party to vote to expand [[hate crime]] laws to include [[sexual orientation]] as a protected category. He supported a constitutional amendment banning [[same-sex marriage]], but he raised concerns about the most recent [[Federal Marriage Amendment]] as being too restrictive, as it would have potentially banned [[civil unions]] as well.

In 1987, Warner was one of the six Republicans who voted to reject the nomination of [[Robert Bork]] by President [[Ronald Reagan]] and the only Southern Republican to do so.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/348_1987.pdf|title=U.S. Senate website}}</ref> Warner was re-elected easily in 1984 and 1990, and faced his first real challenge for re-election in 1996 from political newcomer Democrat [[Mark Warner]] (no relation), a millionaire who vastly outspent the incumbent and produced an unusually close election. John Warner prevailed with 52% of the vote.

According to [[George Stephanopoulos]], a former close aide to President [[Bill Clinton]], Warner was among top choices to replace [[Les Aspin]] as the Secretary of Defense in the [[Clinton administration]]; Clinton ultimately selected [[William J. Perry|William Perry]].<ref>{{cite book|first=George|last=Stephanopoulos|authorlink=George Stephanopoulos|title=All Too Human: A Political Education|publisher=[[Thorndike Press]]|location=Waterville, Maine|date=1999|page=413|isbn=9780786220168}}</ref>

In the [[1996 United States Presidential election|1996 presidential election]], Warner served as a Senate teller (along with Democrat [[Wendell H. Ford]]) of electoral votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=1818|title=Our Campaigns - US President Race - Dec 16, 1996|website=www.ourcampaigns.com}}</ref> Warner was among 10 GOP Senators who voted against the charge of perjury during [[Impeachment of Bill Clinton|Clinton's impeachment]] (the others were [[Richard Shelby]] of [[Alabama]], [[Ted Stevens]] of [[Alaska]], [[Susan Collins (politician)|Susan Collins]] of [[Maine]], [[Olympia Snowe]] of [[Maine]], [[John Chafee]] of [[Rhode Island]], [[Arlen Specter]] of [[Pennsylvania]], [[Jim Jeffords]] of [[Vermont]], [[Slade Gorton]] of [[Washington (state)|Washington]], and [[Fred Thompson]] of [[Tennessee]]). Warner and others who voted against the article angered many Republicans by their position. However, unlike Snowe, Collins, Specter, Jeffords, and Chafee, the rest of the Republicans voted guilty on the second article.

As was the case in [[1990 United States Senate election in Virginia|1990]], Warner faced no Democratic opposition in [[2002 United States Senate election in Virginia|2002]], winning re-election to a fifth term in the Senate by a landslide over Independent candidate Jacob Hornberger.<ref>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|423821298}} |title=WARNER MAKES HISTORY |work=[[Richmond Times - Dispatch]] |date=October 27, 2002 |page=F-2 }}</ref>

[[File:President George W. Bush Shakes Hands with Senator John Warner in the Oval Office.jpg|thumb|Warner with President [[George W. Bush]] in the Oval Office, 2001]]
On May 23, 2005, Warner was one of 14 centrist senators, dubbed the "[[Gang of 14]]," to forge a compromise on the Democrats' proposed use of the judicial [[filibuster]], thus blocking the Republican leadership's attempt to implement the so-called [[nuclear option]]. Under the agreement, the Democrats would retain the power to filibuster a Bush judicial nominee only in an "extraordinary circumstance", and three Bush [[appellate court]] nominees, [[Janice Rogers Brown]], [[Priscilla Owen]], and [[William H. Pryor, Jr.]], would receive a vote by the full Senate.

On September 17, 2006, Warner said that U.S. military and intelligence personnel in future wars will suffer for abuses committed in 2006 by the U.S. in the name of fighting terrorism. He feared that the administration's civilian lawyers and a president who never saw combat were putting U.S. service personnel at risk of torture, [[summary execution]]s and other atrocities by chipping away at [[Geneva Conventions]]’ standards that have protected them since 1949. Following the Supreme Court ruling on ''[[Hamdan v. Rumsfeld]]'', which was adverse to the Bush Administration, Warner (with Senators [[Lindsey Graham]] and [[John McCain]]) negotiated with the White House the language of the [[Military Commissions Act of 2006]], suspending [[habeas corpus]] provisions for anyone deemed by the Executive Branch an "[[unlawful combatant]]" and barring them from challenging their detentions in court. Warner's vote gave a retroactive, nine-year immunity to U.S. officials who authorized, ordered, or committed acts of torture and abuse, permitting the use of statements obtained through torture to be used in military tribunals so long as the abuse took place by December 30, 2005.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0609290178sep29,1,1387725.story |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090224105706/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0609290178sep29,1,1387725.story |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 24, 2009 |title=Tribunal bill OKd by Senate |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |first1=William |last1=Neikirk |first2=Andrew |last2=Zajac |first3=Mark |last3=Silva |date=September 29, 2006 |access-date=September 29, 2006 }}</ref>

[[File:Congressman Tom Davis with Senator John Warner.jpg|thumb|left|Warner with Congressman [[Tom Davis (Virginia politician)|Tom Davis]], 2003]]
Warner's "compromise" (approved by a Republican majority) authorized the President to establish permissible interrogation methods and to "interpret the meaning and application" of international [[Geneva Convention]] standards, so long as the coercion falls short of "serious" bodily or psychological injury.<ref>{{Cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/washington/29detain.html | title = Senate Passes Broad New Detainee Rules |work=[[The New York Times]] | date = September 28, 2006 | access-date = September 28, 2006 | first=Kate | last=Zernike}}</ref> Warner maintained that the new law holds true to "core principles" that the U.S. provide fair trials and not be seen as undermining Geneva Conventions.<ref name=gulftimes-09-17-b>{{Cite news|title=Veterans' defiance a nightmare for Bush|date=September 17, 2006|url=http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.aspx?cu_no=2&item_no=108178&version=1&template_id=46&parent_id=26|access-date=September 17, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108000930/http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.aspx?cu_no=2&item_no=108178&version=1&template_id=46&parent_id=26|archive-date=November 8, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> The bill was signed into law on October 17, 2006, in Warner's presence.<ref>{{Cite news | url =https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/washington/18detaincnd.html?ei=5094&en=ed4b9de52ce8654a&hp=&ex=1161144000&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1161724567-hMAZIP3a7slOeu5CRrfxzw | title = THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ; Bush Reassures Iraqi That There Is No Timetable for Withdrawal|work=[[The New York Times]] | date = October 16, 2006 | access-date = February 8, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/nation/15785456.htm |title=The Sun News &#124; 10/18/2006 &#124; Bush signs bill, hails interrogation rules |access-date=October 24, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070107202747/http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/nation/15785456.htm |archive-date=January 7, 2007  }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17207|title=George Bush, John McCain and 'Torture'|magazine=[[Human Events]]|access-date=October 24, 2006|archive-date=September 30, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930165101/http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17207|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:John Warner and John Kelly.png|thumb|right|Warner and [[John F. Kelly]] hold a briefing regarding the status of investigations into the [[Haditha massacre|Haditha incident]], 2006]]
In March 2007, after Chairman of the Joint Chiefs [[Peter Pace]] spoke publicly about his [[views on homosexuality and the military]], Warner said, "I respectfully, but strongly, disagree with the chairman's view that homosexuality is immoral."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/14/clinton.gays/index.html|title=Sen. Clinton dodges question on gays, immorality|website=[[CNN]]|date=March 15, 2007}}</ref>

On August 23, 2007, he called on President Bush to begin bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq by Christmas in order to make it clear to the Iraqi leadership that the U.S. commitment is not indefinite.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/warner-bring-some-troops-home/|title=Warner: Bring Some Troops Home|first=Kate|last=Phillips|date=August 23, 2007}}</ref>

On August 31, 2007, he announced that he would not seek a sixth term in the Senate in 2008.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna20534057 | title = Sen. Warner won't seek 6th term | publisher=NBC News | date = August 31, 2007 | access-date = August 31, 2007}}</ref>

Warner was a cosponsor of [[America's Climate Security Act of 2007]], also more commonly referred to as the [[Cap and Trade]] Bill, that proposed to ration (cap) carbon emissions in the U.S., and tax or purchase (trade) [[Carbon credits]] on the global market for greater U.S. alignment with the [[Kyoto protocol]] standards and goals.

In September 2008, Warner joined the [[Gang of 20]], a bipartisan coalition seeking comprehensive energy reform. The group pushed for a bill that would encourage state-by-state decisions on [[offshore drilling]] and authorize billions of dollars for conservation and alternative energy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/politics/28297749.html|title=Klobuchar joins bipartisan energy group|website=[[Star Tribune]] }}</ref>

In October 2008, Warner voted in favor of the [[Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008]].<ref name='Senate Vote-212-Amendment'>
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===Committee assignments===
[[File:United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, Levin D-MI & Warner R-VA, 7-31-2007.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Committee chairman [[Carl Levin]] (D-MI) and ranking member John Warner (R-VA) listen to Admiral [[Mike Mullen]]'s confirmation hearing before the Armed Services Committee to become [[Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff]], July 31, 2007. Levin and Warner died two months apart.]]
*Committee on Environment and Public Works
**Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection (Ranking Member)
**Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure
*Committee on Armed Services
**Subcommittee on Airland
**Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
**Subcommittee on SeaPower
*Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
**Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration
**Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
**Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia
*Select Committee on Intelligence
*Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
*Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

==Post-Senate life==
[[File:John Warner September 2016.jpg|thumb|left|Warner in 2016, at a ceremony accepting the [[Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service]]]]

Warner was listed as a senior advisor at the website for the D.C. law firm, [[Hogan Lovells]]. He was in the firm's Global Regulatory practice group, and his specialties were Aerospace, Defense, and Government Services.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/john-warner|title=Hogan Lovells|access-date=October 5, 2019|archive-date=June 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616222046/http://www.hoganlovells.com/en/john-warner|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2014, Warner endorsed Mark Warner's [[2014 United States Senate election in Virginia|Senate reelection bid]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollcall.com/news/policy/john-warner-backs-mark-warner|title=John Warner Endorses Mark Warner (Updated)|first=Kyle|last=Trygstad|date=January 27, 2014|via=www.rollcall.com|access-date=October 31, 2018|archive-date=October 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031173916/https://www.rollcall.com/news/policy/john-warner-backs-mark-warner|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hohmann |first=James |date=January 27, 2014 |title=Warner endorses Warner |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/mark-warner-john-warner-virginia-2014-102657 |access-date=March 4, 2021 |website=POLITICO |language=en}}</ref> On September 28, 2016, Warner endorsed [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] presidential candidate [[Hillary Clinton]] over [[Donald Trump]], praising Clinton's record of bipartisan cooperation.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Flores|first1=Reena|title=Former GOP Sen. John Warner endorses Hillary Clinton|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-gop-sen-john-warner-endorses-hillary-clinton/|website=CBS News|access-date=September 28, 2016|date=September 28, 2016}}</ref> He endorsed Republican candidate [[Ed Gillespie]] for Governor in [[2017 Virginia gubernatorial election|2017]].<ref>{{cite web |date=November 7, 2017 |title=Schapiro: J. Warner endorsement spotlights Gillespie's path - Columnist Jeff Schapiro - richmond.com |url=https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/jeff-schapiro/schapiro-j-warner-endorsement-spotlights-gillespie-s-path/article_922c7876-6fd9-584d-91f3-af813c82e613.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107180529/https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/jeff-schapiro/schapiro-j-warner-endorsement-spotlights-gillespie-s-path/article_922c7876-6fd9-584d-91f3-af813c82e613.html |archive-date=November 7, 2017}}</ref> In 2018, he endorsed Democrats [[Tim Kaine]] for Senate and [[Abigail Spanberger]] and [[Leslie Cockburn]] for Congress while endorsing Republican [[Barbara Comstock]] for [[Virginia's 10th congressional district]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Former senator John Warner crosses party lines to endorse Democrat Tim Kaine |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/ex-virginia-sen-john-warner-crosses-party-lines-to-endorse-democrat-tim-kaine/2018/09/26/414585ba-c1b5-11e8-a1f0-a4051b6ad114_story.html |access-date=June 6, 2019 |newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Daugherty |first=Owen |date=November 2, 2018 |title=Ex-GOP Sen. Warner endorses Virginia Democrat over Dave Brat |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/414545-former-gop-senator-endorses-dem-spanberger-over-dave-brat |website=TheHill}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loudountimes.com/news/former-sen-john-warner-endorses-comstock-in-her-re-election-bid/article_d827f0e6-cc99-11e8-a5e5-430fa9cce8c1.html|title=Former Sen. John Warner endorses Comstock in her re-election bid|first1=Trevor |last1=Baratko |website=LoudounTimes.com|date=October 10, 2018 }}</ref> In [[2020 United States presidential election|2020]], Warner endorsed former Vice President [[Joe Biden]] for President of the United States and Mark Warner for [[2020 United States Senate election in Virginia|his reelection bid to the Senate]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Times-Dispatch|first=JEFF E. SCHAPIRO Richmond|title=Former Sen. John Warner endorses Joe Biden|url=https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/former-sen-john-warner-endorses-joe-biden/article_0d92453f-e0ed-51e5-8f17-ea6c67c96734.html|access-date=June 29, 2020|website=Richmond Times-Dispatch|date=March 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://markwarnerva.com/2020/10/john-warner-endorsement/ |title=Republican Former Senator John Warner Endorses Mark Warner's Re-election Bid |work=Mark Warner For Virginia |date=October 20, 2020 |access-date=December 27, 2020 |archive-date=December 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223073753/https://markwarnerva.com/2020/10/john-warner-endorsement/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2020, Warner, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.defendingdemocracytogether.org/national-security/ |title=Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden |date=20 August 2020 |website=Defending Democracy Together |access-date=26 August 2021}}</ref>

Warner also served as an Honorary Director on the Board of Directors at the [[Atlantic Council]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/board-of-directors/|title=Board of Directors|website=Atlantic Council|language=en-US|access-date=February 12, 2020}}</ref>

===Honors===
On December 12, 2008, the [[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]] awarded Warner the first ever [[National Intelligence Distinguished Public Service Medal]]. In 2008, Warner delivered the [[Waldo Family Lecture on International Relations]] at [[Old Dominion University]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hansen |first1=Louis |title=In Norfolk talk, Sen. Warner says 'free market will survive' |url=https://pilotonline.com/news/in-norfolk-talk-sen-warner-says-free-market-will-survive/article_42ffb916-3ad7-550f-8686-1f6d07ca6682.html |access-date=August 14, 2019 |work=The Virginian Pilot |date=October 10, 2008 |archive-date=August 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814155156/https://pilotonline.com/news/in-norfolk-talk-sen-warner-says-free-market-will-survive/article_42ffb916-3ad7-550f-8686-1f6d07ca6682.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On January 8, 2009, the Secretary of the Navy announced the Navy would name the next {{sclass|Virginia|submarine}} after John Warner. {{USS|John Warner|SSN-785}} is the twelfth ''Virginia''-class submarine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12431|title=U.S. Department of Defense|website=U.S. Department of Defense}}</ref> and was commissioned on August 1, 2015, at a ceremony at [[Naval Station Norfolk]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/612814/navy-to-commission-submarine-john-warner/|title=Navy to Commission Submarine John Warner}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/04/politics/new-navy-sub-uss-john-warner/index.html|title=New sub Navy's 'most lethal warship' USS John Warner |first=Brad |last=Lendon|date=August 4, 2015 |publisher=CNN}}</ref>

On February 19, 2009, the [[British Embassy]] in Washington, D.C., announced that [[Queen Elizabeth II]] would name John Warner an honorary Knight Commander for his work strengthening the American-British military alliance.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/queen-to-name-john-warner-honorary-knight/article_a3638aaf-2416-5c6f-a7fd-688224ada719.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204121250/http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/queen-to-name-john-warner-honorary-knight/article_a3638aaf-2416-5c6f-a7fd-688224ada719.html|url-status=dead|title=Queen to name John Warner honorary knight - Richmond Times-Dispatch: …|date=February 4, 2013|archive-date=February 4, 2013}}</ref> As a person who was not a British citizen (or a citizen of a country which acknowledges the British monarch as their own monarch), the title of [[Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire]] only allowed Warner to put the [[Post-nominal letters]] [[Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire|KBE]] after his name.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/02/19/ST2009021903055.html|title=A Most Excellent Honor For the Ex-Senator - washingtonpost.com|first=Brigid|last=Schulte |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>

The annual Senator John W. Warner Award is given to a third year undergraduate student at the [[University of Virginia]] who exhibits a serious, convincing ambition to seek future election to public office. This award honors an individual who strives for service in an elected office, whether it is a part-time city council position or a full-time legislative or executive office. Successful candidates demonstrate the required courage to stand up and ask fellow citizens for their valued vote. The award of up to $3,000 funds a research project in an area that will inform the recipient's future career as an elected official. Award recipients include: John Jacob Nay, Casey Enders, James Linville, and Sarah Buckley.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.virginia.edu/provost/warneraward.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515200502/http://www.virginia.edu/provost/warneraward.html|url-status=dead|title=University of Virginia Warner Award|archive-date=May 15, 2008}}</ref>

On May 2, 2013, Warner and [[United States Marine Corps]] representatives broke ground for the Senator John W. Warner Center for Advanced [[Military science|Military Studies]] at [[Marine Corps University]] in [[Quantico, Virginia]]. The Warner Center is home to the [[Marine Corps Command and Staff College]], School of Advanced Warfighting and College of Distance Education and Training, and the [[Edwin H. Simmons|Brigadier General Simmons]] Center for Marine Corps History, including the archives of the Marine Corps and the [[United States Marine Corps History Division|history division]].<ref name="MCUF">{{cite journal |date=Fall 2013 |title=The Senator John W. Warner Center for Advanced Military Studies, May 2, 2013 |journal=Foundation News |publisher=Marine Corps University Foundation |issue=71 |page=6 |url=http://www.mcuf.org/docs/2013-fall-newsletter.pdf |access-date=February 19, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216112536/http://mcuf.org/docs/2013-Fall-Newsletter.pdf |archive-date=February 16, 2015  }}</ref><ref name=Sentry>{{cite news|last1=Baker|first1=Eve A.|title=Marine Corps University construction project nearing the end of Phase II|url=http://www.quanticosentryonline.com/news/article_bf555204-b792-11e4-ad7d-bb0bce4f2e7d.html|access-date=February 19, 2015|work=Quantico Sentry|publisher=BH Media Group Holdings, Inc.|date=February 18, 2015}}</ref>

==Personal life==
In August 1957, Warner married banking heiress Catherine Conover Mellon, the daughter of art collector [[Paul Mellon]] and his first wife, Mary Conover, and the granddaughter of [[Andrew Mellon]]. By his marriage, Warner accrued substantial capital for investing and expanding his political contacts. The Warners, who divorced in 1973, had three children: Virginia, John IV, and Mary. His former wife now uses the name Catherine Conover.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mewbor|first=Mary K.|date=May 2005|title=Real Estate News|url=https://washingtonlife.com/issues/2005-05/realestate/|access-date=August 23, 2020|website=Washington Life Magazine}}</ref>

Warner was the sixth husband of actress [[Elizabeth Taylor]], whom he married in December 1976, at the [[Second Presbyterian Church (Richmond, Virginia)|Second Presbyterian Church]] in [[Richmond, Virginia]], before he was elected to the Senate. They divorced in November 1982. Warner was the last surviving, as well as the longest-lived, of Taylor's seven husbands.

Warner was linked romantically to broadcast journalist [[Barbara Walters]] in the 1990s. In December 2003, he married Jeanne Vander Myde, a real estate agent and the widow of Reagan administration defense department official Paul Vander Myde.<ref>{{cite web|last=Stolberg|first=Sheryl Gay|date=December 21, 2003|title=Weddings/Celebrations, Vows: Jeanne Vander Myde and John Warner|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/21/style/weddings-celebrations-vows-jeanne-vander-myde-and-john-warner.html|access-date=August 23, 2020|website=New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Lerman|first=David|date=December 14, 2003|title=Winter Wedding for Warner|url=https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-20031214-2003-12-14-0312140066-story.html|access-date=August 23, 2020|website=Daily Press|language=en-US}}</ref>

===Death and funeral===
Warner died from heart failure at his home in [[Alexandria, Virginia]], on May 25, 2021, at age 94.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://apnews.com/article/john-warner-virginia-entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-government-and-politics-17a5cd9c4218ee6a931099956ec4c119|title = John Warner dies: military expert married Elizabeth Taylor|last = Putman|first = Eileen|work = [[Associated Press]]|date = May 26, 2021|accessdate = May 26, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/26/politics/virginia-senator-john-warner-dies/index.html|title=John Warner, longtime US senator from Virginia, dies at 94|work=CNN|first=Veronica|last=Stracqualursi|date=May 26, 2021|accessdate=May 26, 2021}}</ref> Warner's funeral was held June 23, 2021, at [[Washington National Cathedral]]. President Joe Biden, Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, and Admiral [[Michael Mullen]] were among those who spoke at the funeral.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Elwood |first1=Karina |title=Biden: Sen. John W. Warner 'is a reminder of what we can do when we come together as one nation' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/john-warner-virginia-senator-funeral/2021/06/22/0357d9ca-d089-11eb-8014-2f3926ca24d9_story.html |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=23 June 2021 |date=23 June 2021}}</ref>

==Electoral results==
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 |percentage = 49.8
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 |percentage = 70.1
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 |candidate  = [[Edythe C. Harrison]]
 |votes      = 601,142
 |percentage = 29.9
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 |votes      = 846,782
 |percentage = 80.4
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 |percentage = 18.7
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 |candidate  = John Warner (Incumbent)
 |votes      = 1,235,743
 |percentage = 52.5
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 |votes      = 1,115,981
 |percentage = 47.4
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{{Election box begin | title=[[2002 United States Senate election in Virginia]]}}
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 |party      = Republican Party (US)
 |candidate  = John Warner (Incumbent)
 |votes      = 1,229,894
 |percentage = 82.6
 |change     = +30.1
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
 |party      = Independent (politician)
 |candidate  = [[Nancy B. Spannaus]]
 |votes      = 145,102
 |percentage = 9.7
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
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 |candidate  = Jacob Hornberger
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 |percentage = 7.1
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==See also==
* [[List of members of the American Legion]]

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