Henry Waterman Warren (March 18, 1838 – February 21, 1919) was an American teacher, plantation owner, tanner, judge, and politician. He wrote an account of his time as a carpetbagger. Warren's ancestry could be traced back to John Warren of Nayland, England, who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony alongside John Winthrop. Warren was born in Auburn, Massachusetts, to parents Waterman Goulding and Mary Eddy Warren on March 18, 1838. His family moved to Holden, Massachusetts, in 1840. Warren attended Worcester Academy and Westfield Normal School, among other institutions, then graduated from Yale in 1865. 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 rem