Warren Winslow (January 1, 1810 – August 16, 1862) was an American politician, who served as 33rd

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of the U.S. state of

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from 1854 to 1855. 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. Winslow was serving as Speaker of the North Carolina Senate in 1854 when Governor David S. Reid resigned, having been elected to the

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by the legislature. According to the amendments passed at the Convention of 1835, if a governor died or left office, the Speaker of the Senate was to assume the post (the

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position was not created until the ratification of the Constitution of 1868). Winslow graduated from the

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. 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 gubernatorial position to Winslow on December 6, 1854. Winslow served in this position until Thomas Bragg was inaugurated on January 1, 1855. He then served in the

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from March 1855 to March 1861. Winslow was a

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. Winslow was a native of

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, which is also where he died.

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Congressional Biography
1810 births 1862 deaths Democratic Party governors of North Carolina Democratic Party North Carolina state senators Politicians from Fayetteville, North Carolina Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives 19th-century members of the North Carolina General Assembly {{NorthCarolina-politician-stub