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Fitz Henry Warren
Fitz Henry Warren (January 11, 1816 – June 1878) was a politician and a Union Army general during the American Civil War.
Early life and career.
Warren was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts. In August 1844, he moved to Burlington in the Iowa Territory where he was a journalist and editorial contributor for the Burlington "Hawkeye." 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 in 1849, 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