Francis E. Warren

Warren was born on June 20, 1844, in Hinsdale, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, the son of Cynthia Estella (Abbott) and Joseph Spencer Warren.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k2AbAQAAMAAJ&q=Francis+Emroy+Warren+Cynthia+Abbott|title = Tillotson, Tillison, and Tillitson: Descendants of John Tillotson, Immigrant to the American Colonies from the West Riding, Yorkshire, England : Landowner of Rowley and Newbury Colony of the Massachusetts Bay and One of the Thirty Founders of Lyme Colony of Connecticut in Two Volumes|last1 = Ragsdale|first1 = Margaret Tillotson|year = 1998}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xklWAAAAMAAJ&q=Francis+Emroy+Warren+Cynthia+Abbott|title = American Ancestors and Cousins of the Princess of Wales: The New England, Mid-Atlantic and Virginia Forebears, Near Relatives, and Notable Distant Kinsmen, Through Her American Great-grandmother, of Lady Diana Frances Spencer, Now Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales|isbn = 9780806310855|last1 = Roberts|first1 = Gary Boyd|last2 = Reitwiesner|first2 = William Addams|year = 1984| publisher=Genealogical Publishing Company }} He grew up attending common schools and his local Hinsdale Academy.

During the civil war, Warren served in the 49th Massachusetts Infantry as a noncommissioned officer. At the age of nineteen at the siege of Port Hudson, Warren received the Medal of Honor for battlefield gallantry. His entire platoon was destroyed by Confederate bombardment and Warren, taking a serious scalp wound, disabled the artillery. Warren later served as a captain in the Massachusetts Militia.

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Rank and Organization: Corporal, Company C, 49th Massachusetts Infantry.

Place and Date: At Port Hudson, La., May 27, 1863.

Entered Service At: Hinsdale, Mass.

Birth: Hinsdale, Mass.

Date Of Issue: September 30, 1893.

Citation:

:Volunteered in response to a call, and took part in the movement that was made upon the enemy's works under a heavy fire therefrom in advance of the general assault.

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Francis E. Warren married Helen Smith, a woman from Massachusetts, although all of their married life until his first election to the United States Senate, in 1890, was spent in Wyoming. They had two children, a daughter, Helen Frances, and a son, Frederick Emory. Mrs. Warren was the president of church, literary and charitable societies of Cheyenne, vice-president of the Foundling Hospital, and Daughter of the American Revolution.{{cite book|last1=Hinman|first1=Ida|title=The Washington Sketch Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NxAyAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA11|date=1896|at=sec. Supplement p. 11}}{{PD-notice}}

Following the civil war, Warren engaged in farming and stock-raising in Massachusetts before moving to Wyoming (then part of the Territory of Dakota) in 1868. Settling in Cheyenne, Warren engaged in real estate, mercantile business, livestock raising and the establishment of Cheyenne's first lighting system, becoming quite wealthy.

Warren's political work included: member, Wyoming Territorial Senate (1873–1874, 1884–1885), serving as senate president; member, Cheyenne City Council (1873–1874); treasurer of Wyoming (1876, 1879, 1882, 1884); and Mayor of Cheyenne (1885).

In February 1885, Warren was appointed Governor of the Territory of Wyoming by President Chester A. Arthur, although he was removed by Democratic President Grover Cleveland in November 1886. He was reappointed by President Benjamin Harrison in April 1889, and served until 1890, when he was elected first Governor of Wyoming (October 11, 1890 – November 24, 1890).

In November 1890, Warren resigned as governor, having been elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, serving until March 4, 1893. He then resumed his former business pursuits before returning to the Senate (March 4, 1895–November 24, 1929). Warren chaired the following Senate Committees:

:- Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands

:- Committee on Claims

:- Committee on Irrigation

:- Committee on Military Affairs

:- Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds

:- Committee on Agriculture and Forestry

:- Committee on Appropriations

:- Committee on Engrossed Bills

Warren died on November 24, 1929, in Washington, D.C. His funeral service was held in the United States Senate chamber. At the time of his death, he had served longer than any other U.S. senator.

F. E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming is named after Warren. Additionally, Warren's daughter married then-Captain John J. Pershing in 1905. Several years later, President Theodore Roosevelt promoted Pershing from captain to brigadier general over 900 senior officers. Pershing's wife and three daughters were later killed during a fire at the Presidio in San Francisco. Warren was also the first senator to hire a female staffer and, as appropriations chairman during World War I, he was instrumental in funding the American efforts. Warren and his second wife, Clara LaBarron Morgan, bought the Nagle Warren Mansion in April 1910, and their dining room hosted people such as presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.{{cite web|url=http://www.historic-hotels.com/wyoming/nagle-warren|title=Nagle Warren Mansion Cheyenne, Wyoming|publisher=Historic Hotels|access-date=January 8, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204022847/http://www.historic-hotels.com/wyoming/nagle-warren|archive-date=December 4, 2017|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.wyomingtourism.org/overview/Nagle-Warren-Mansion-Hotel/3760|title=Nagle Warren Mansion Hotel|publisher=Wyoming Tourism|access-date=January 8, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101104060800/http://www.wyomingtourism.org/overview/Nagle-Warren-Mansion-Hotel/3760|archive-date=November 4, 2010}} This mansion is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.{{NRISref|version=2010a}} In 1958, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.{{cite web |title=Hall of Great Westerners |url=https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/hall-of-great-westerners/ |website=National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum |access-date=November 22, 2019}}

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• [https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv156726 Francis E. Warren Papers] at the American Heritage Center
• AHC [https://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/luna/servlet/uwydbuwy~71~71 Digital Collection Francis E. Warren]
• AHC blog: [https://ahcwyo.org/2016/07/10/wyoming-statehood-a-load-of-blatherskitism/ Wyoming Statehood: A load of "blatherskitism"?]

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