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HON. FRANCIS E. WARREN, 



UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM WYOMING. 



HON. FRANCIS E. WARREN, United States Senator from Wyoming, has been one of 

 the most conspicuous and energetic advocates of irrigation legislation in the United 

 States Senate. Coming from a state in which originate most of the large rivers whose 

 waters are used in irrigation, it is fitting that he should originate many of the ideas which have 

 been embodied in national legislation relating to irrigation. 



Senator Warren was born at Hinsdale, Mass., June 20, 1844; he received an academic 

 education, entered the 49th Massachusetts Volunteers as a private, serving from 1862 to 1865 ; 

 he then engaged in farming and stock raising in Massachusetts until 1866, when he removed to 

 western Dakota, the country afterwards being organized into the Territory of Wyoming. He 

 engaged in the mercantile business in Cheyenne, and became interested in live stock ; later he 

 was elected governor. of Wyoming Territory, and subsequently became the first governor of the 

 new state. He has served'in the United States Senate since 1890, his present term expiring in 

 1907 



Of large frame and equally strong mental grasp, Senator Warren is at all times a com- 

 manding figure, and in his advocacy of irrigation legislation he has attracted attention to the 



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