Obituary

John Warner, GOP Senate Stalwart With Air of Glamour, Dies at 94

  • Virginia’s second longest-serving senator retired in 2009
  • The centrist Republican opposed Robert Bork, Iraq troop surge

John Warner speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. in 2007.

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John Warner, a Republican who represented Virginia in the U.S. Senate for 30 years and brought to Washington a rare aura of glamour including a marriage to actress Elizabeth Taylor, has died. He was 94.

Warner’s former chief of staff Carter Cornick announced the death but did not provide further detail, accordingBloomberg Terminal to the Washington Post.