VP Warner was the second Liberian Bishop of the United Methodist Church of Liberia and last True Whig Party vice president of Liberia before the 1980 coup.
He served as VP to the late President William Tolbert from 1977 to the time of 1980 coup.
VP Warner was attending a Methodist conference in the US when the 1980 coup occurred.
While in exile, he worked for the United Methodist church in the US and served as lecturer at some universities until he retired.
Born on 30 April 1935 in Careysburg District, Montserrado County, Warner was later adopted by Vivienne Newton Gray and Ulysses Samuel Gray Sr.
He was a bishop in the United Methodist Church for four years before he was plucked from relative obscurity to become Vice President in 1977, succeeding James Edward Greene.
Warner attempted to form a government in exile in Ivory Coast to challenge the coup makers.
A month after he was evicted from political power, he was removed from ecclesiastical power: Methodist minister D. Sieh Doe proclaimed the bishopric vacant, and for six months the seat was empty and the church run by Warner’s administrative assistant.
On December 6. the Liberia Annual Conference elected as his successor Bishop Arthur Flumo Kulah formerly the dean of the Gbarnga School of Theology.
Warner had been the second native Liberian bishop in the history of the church in Liberia.
Four years after Tolbert was overthrown, Commander-in-Chief Samuel Doe proclaimed clemency for him and announced that Warner was free to return to Liberia.
Bishop Warner later established residence in Oklahoma City, where he taught at the United Methodist Oklahoma City University and pastored Quayle United Methodist Church.
He then served in Syracuse N.Y, before being appointed District Superintendent of the Camden District of the United Methodist Church in Arkansas.