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Senate Years of Service: 1890-1893; 1895-1929 Party: Republican; Republican
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WARREN, Francis Emroy, a Senator from Wyoming; born in Hinsdale, Berkshire County, Mass., June 20,
1844; attended the common schools and Hinsdale Academy; during the Civil War enlisted in the
Forty-ninth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and served as a private and
noncommissioned officer until he was mustered out of the service; received the Congressional Medal
of Honor for gallantry on the battlefield at the siege of Port Hudson; later served as captain in the
Massachusetts militia; engaged in farming and stock raising in Massachusetts; moved to Wyoming
(then a part of the Territory of Dakota) in 1868; became interested in the real estate, mercantile,
livestock, and lighting businesses in Cheyenne; member, Territorial senate 1873-1874, serving as
president; member of the city council 1873-1874; treasurer of Wyoming 1876, 1879, 1882, 1884;
member, Territorial senate 1884-1885; mayor of Cheyenne 1885; appointed Governor of the
Territory of Wyoming by President Chester Arthur in February 1885 but was removed by President
Grover Cleveland in November 1886; again appointed Governor by President Benjamin Harrison in
March 1889 and served until elected to the position in 1890; elected as the first Governor of the State
in September 1890, but resigned in November 1890, having been elected Senator; elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate on November 18, 1890, and served until March 4, 1893;
resumed agricultural pursuits and stock raising; again elected to the United States Senate in 1895;
reelected in 1901, 1907, 1913, 1918 and 1924 and served from March 4, 1895, until his death;
chairman, Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Fifty-second, Fifty-fourth and
Fifty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Claims (Fifty-sixth through Fifty-ninth Congresses), Committee
on Irrigation (Fifty-ninth Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Fifty-ninth through Sixty-first
Congresses), Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Fifty-ninth Congress), Committee on
Agriculture and Forestry (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Appropriations (Sixty-second and
Sixty-sixth through Seventy-first Congresses), Committee on Engrossed Bills (Sixty-third through
Sixty-fifth Congresses); died in Washington, D.C., November 24, 1929; funeral services were held
in the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in Lakeview Cemetery, Cheyenne, Wyo.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography;
Gould, Lewis. Francis E. Warren and the Johnson County War. Arizona and the West 9 (Summer 1967): 131-42; Schulp, Leonard. A Taft Republican: Sen. Francis E. Warren
and National Politics. Annals of Wyoming 54 (Fall 1982): 62-67.
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