Fitz Henry Warren
| Fitz Henry Warren | |
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| Born |
January 11, 1816 Brimfield, Massachusetts |
| Died | June, 1878 (aged 61–62) Brimfield, Massachusetts |
| Place of burial | Brimfield Cemetery, Brimfield, Massachusetts |
| Allegiance |
United States of America Union |
| Service/branch |
United States Army Union Army |
| Rank |
 Brevet Major General
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| Unit | 1st Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry |
| Battles/wars | American Civil War |
Fitz Henry Warren (January 11, 1816 – June 1878) was a politician and a general during the American Civil War.
Warren was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts. In August 1844, he moved to Burlington in the Iowa Territory. He was an early political activist in the Whig Party. He was reported to have been the first to propose the nomination of General Zachary Taylor for President. He was a delegate to the National Whig Convention in 1848.
Upon the subsequent inauguration of President Taylor, Fitz Henry Warren was appointed First Assistant Postmaster General. After the death of Taylor, Warren resigned his position in protest of President Millard Fillmore's support of the Fugitive Slave Law. With the growing support of Anti-Slavery Whigs, Fitz Henry Warren was made secretary of the Whig Party National Executive Committee.
Warren was chairman of the Des Moines County delegation to the convention of 1856 that organized the Republican Party and nominated John C. Frémont as the first Republican presidential candidate.
In 1861 he was one of the chief editorial writers on the New York Tribune and the author of the controversial "On to Richmond" articles after the First Battle of Bull Run. He also was a frequent contributor to the editorial columns of the early Burlington, Iowa, Hawkeye.
He returned to Iowa following First Bull Run and, as Colonel, helped to raise the 1st Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry. In 1862 he was promoted to brigadier general with a command in the army in Missouri under General Samuel R. Curtis.
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