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Fuller Warren (October
3, 1905 – September 23, 1973) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th governor of Florida.
Born in Blountstown, Florida, he
attended the University of Florida in Gainesville. While at the
university he was one of the early members of Florida Blue Key, as well as the Tau chapter of Theta Chi fraternity. While still attending the
university, he was elected in 1927 at the age of 21 to the Florida House of
Representatives. Following
graduation, he moved to Jacksonville, where he
began practicing law. He served on the city council from
1931 until 1937; he was elected and returned to the Florida House in 1939.
During World War II, he was a gunnery officer in the U.S. Navy. Warren was nominated for
governor by the Democratic Party in 1948; his platform included promises to
fight racism in Florida. In addition to having to deal with
racial segregation, most blacks were still disenfranchised and cut out of the
official political system. Warren won the election and assumed the office
of governor on January 4, In March 1949, reports were published that
Warren had been a member of the Klan. He issued a statement saying that he had
been a member before World War II, but during it he had "helped to fight a
war to destroy the Nazis — first cousins to Klansmen." During
his term, Warren set the foundations for the the Florida reforestation program, instituted
quality control programs on Florida's citrus crops, and signed a law that
forbade cattle from wandering freely (as they damaged crops). In 1951 Warren
signed an anti-Klan law which, although not mentioning the Klan specifically,
forbade the wearing of masks in public or on the private property of another
person without the written permission of the owner. The
hearings of the United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate
Commerce, chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver, brought to light the involvement of Florida
public officials in gambling-related corruption involving numbers games and bolita. There were accusations that Warren's 1948 campaign had
been funded by organized criminals. Warren refused to cooperate with the
committee, claiming that to do so would contradict the principle of States' rights. In a letter to Senator Herbert O'Conor, in which Warren informed the committee that
he would not appear before them, he stated: "I think state sovereignty as
conceived by the founders of our Government is something more than a fading
memory to rest in the nation's archives." In 1951, legislator George S Okell, in
the Florida House of
Representatives introduced a resolution to impeach Warren for "wilfully ignoring" his duty
to eliminate illegal gambling in Florida and for falsifying papers related to
his 1948 campaign. The House voted on May 28, 1951, to reject the articles of
impeachment.