Henry Waterman Warren

Henry Waterman Warren (March 18, 1838 – February 21, 1919) was an American teacher, plantation owner, tanner, judge, and politician. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and Massachusetts House of Representatives. He wrote an account of his time in Mississippi as a "carpetbagger".

Early life Warren's ancestry traces back to John Warren of Nayland, England, who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony alongside John Winthrop. then graduated from Yale in 1865.

Career Warren held a teaching position at a school in Nashville, Tennessee, for six months following graduation from Yale, then moved to Leake County, Mississippi, with his brother in 1866. He remained in Mississippi for a decade as a cotton plantation owner.

Warren accepted an appointment as Leake County probate judge from Adelbert Ames in 1867, served on the state's constitutional convention as a representative of Leake County, and was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1870 and 1871. During the 1871 session, Warren was Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives. He then served as chief clerk of the Mississippi Legislature until 1875. From 1873, Warren served concurrently as Mississippi levee commissioner, via a gubernatorial appointment from Ridgley C. Powers. Warren attended the Republican National Convention as a delegate twice, in 1868 and 1876.

Warren presented Yale University with copy of his book of reminisces. It is in the collection and available online.

Warren married Dora L. Howe in 1877. Through 1894, the couple had four children. The Davis Press, Holden, Massachusetts (1914)