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Warren Winslow

Warren Winslow
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 3rd district
In office
March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1861
Preceded by William S. Ashe
Succeeded by Oliver H. Dockery
33rd Governor of North Carolina
In office
December 6, 1854 – January 1, 1855
Preceded by David Settle Reid
Succeeded by Thomas Bragg
Personal details
Born January 1, 1810
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Died August 16, 1862 (aged 52)
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Political party Democratic
Alma mater University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Warren Winslow (January 1, 1810 – August 16, 1862) was the 33rd Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1854 to 1855. Winslow graduated from the University of North Carolina.

Winslow was serving as Speaker of the North Carolina Senate in 1854 when Governor David S. Reid resigned, having been elected to the Senate by the legislature. According to the 1835 Constitution, if a governor died or left office, the Speaker of the Senate was to assume the post (the lieutenant governor position was not created until the 1868 Constitution). Although first elected to the state senate in 1854, Winslow had a spectacular rise to Democratic Party leadership and became Speaker of the senate that year. After being elected to a vacant U.S. Senate seat and with almost one month left in his gubernatorial term, Governor David S. Reid handed the

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