| Joseph Warren  Born: 11-Jun-1741
Birthplace: Roxbury, MA
Died: 17-Jun-1775
Location of death: Breed's Hill, MA
Cause of death: War
Remains: Buried, Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, MA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Government Nationality: United States
Executive summary: American patriot killed at Bunker Hill The American politician Joseph Warren was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, on the 11th of June 1741. He graduated from Harvard College in 1759, taught in a school at Roxbury in 1760-1, studied medicine, and began to practice in Boston in 1764. The Stamp Act agitation aroused his interest in public questions. He soon became associated with Samuel Adams, John Adams and Josiah Quincy, Jr., as a leader of the popular party, and contributed articles and letters to the Boston Gazette over the signature "True Patriot." The efforts of Samuel Adams to secure the appointment of committees of correspondence met with his hearty support, and he and Adams were the two leading members of the first Boston committee of correspondence, chosen in 1772. As chairman of a committee appointed for the purpose, he drafted the famous "Suffolk Resolves", which were unanimously adopted by a convention at Milton on the 9th of September 1774. These "resolves" urged forcible opposition to Great Britain if it should prove to be necessary, pledged submission to such measures as the Continental Congress might recommend, and favored the calling of a provincial congress. Warren was a member of the first three provincial congresses (1774-5), president of the third, and an active member of the committee of public safety. He took an active part in the fighting on the 19th of April, was appointed major-general of the Massachusetts troops, next in rank to Artemas Ward, on the 14th of June 1775; and three days later, before his commission was made out, he took part as a volunteer, under the orders of Putnam and Prescott, in the battle of Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill), where he was killed. Next to the Adamses, Warren was the most influential leader of the extreme Whig faction in Massachusetts. His tragic death strengthened their zeal for the popular cause and helped to prepare the way for the acceptance of the Declaration of Independence. Warren's speeches are typical examples of the old style of American political eloquence. His best-known orations were those delivered in Old South Church on the second and fifth anniversaries (1772 and 1775) of the "Boston Massacre."
Father: Joseph Warren (d. Oct-1755, fall from a ladder)
Mother: Mary Stevens
Brother: John Warren (b. 27-Jul-1753)
Wife: Elizabeth Hooton (m. 6-Sep-1764, d. 28-Apr-1773)
Daughter: Elizabeth Warren
Son: Joseph Warren
Daughter: Mary Warren
University: Harvard University (1759)
Delegate to the Continental Congress 1774-75
Freemasonry
Shot: Battle 17-Jun-1775
Is the subject of books:
Life and Times of Joseph Warren, 1865, BY: Richard Frothingham
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