{{short description|American journalist}} {{For|the American film director|Jerry Warren}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Jerry Warren |office = [[White House Communications Director|White House Director of Communications]] |president = [[Gerald Ford]] |term_start = November 4, 1974 |term_end = August 15, 1975 |predecessor = [[Ken W. Clawson|Ken Clawson]] |successor = [[Margita White]] |birth_name = Gerald Lee Warren |birth_date = {{birth date|1930|8|17}} |birth_place = [[Hastings, Nebraska|Hastings]], [[Nebraska]], U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|2015|3|20|1930|8|17}} |death_place = [[Arlington, Virginia|Arlington]], [[Virginia]], U.S. |party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] |spouse = Euphemia Brownell |education = [[University of Nebraska, Lincoln]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) }} '''Gerald Lee Warren''' (August 17, 1930 – March 20, 2015) was an American [[journalist]] and newspaper editor at ''[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]]''.<ref name=about>{{cite web|title=Register of the Gerald Warren Papers|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3199p66r/admin/|publisher=Online Archives of California|accessdate=May 1, 2013}}</ref> He served under [[Ron Ziegler]] as deputy [[press secretary]] in the [[Richard Nixon]] administration until 1974.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=warren-gerald-cr.xml|title = Social Networks and Archival Context}}</ref> He served as Nixon's ''de facto'' final [[White House Press Secretary]] after Ron Ziegler's appointment as assistant to the president in June 1974, though Zielger kept the title. He then held the same position as well as [[White House Communications Director|White House Director of Communications]] in the [[Gerald Ford]] administration until 1975.
== Early life == On August 17, 1930, Warren was born in [[Hastings, Nebraska]].<ref name="nixonlibrary_warren"/>
== Career == Warren served as a pilot in the [[United States Navy]] during the [[Korean War]]. Warren graduated from St. Edward High School, St. Edward, Nebraska, in 1948. He graduated from the [[University of Nebraska–Lincoln|University of Nebraska]] in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism.<ref name="thone2004">Thone, Ruth Raymond (Winter 2004). [http://huskeralum.com/communications/nebraska.../a_new_way_of_life.pdf New Way of Life.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402132909/http://huskeralum.com/communications/nebraska.../a_new_way_of_life.pdf |date=April 2, 2015 }} ''University of Nebraska Alumni Magazine''</ref> In 1951, Warren served as the editor of ''[[The Daily Nebraskan]]'' while also working as a reporter for ''[[Lincoln Journal Star|The Lincoln Star]]''. From 1952 to 1956, he served as a pilot in the [[US Navy]].<ref name=about /> Warren joined the ''San Diego Union'' in 1956 as a reporter and eventually worked his way up to becoming the assistant city editor.<ref name=front>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,907511,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081214071007/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,907511,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 14, 2008 |title=The Press: New Man Up Front |accessdate=January 27, 2010 |date=July 9, 1973 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref> He worked up to become assistant managing director at the paper in 1968, when he was invited to become deputy press secretary at the White House.<ref name=front/>
In 1969, Warren became a deputy press secretary during the Nixon administration.<ref name="nixonlibrary_warren">{{cite web |url=https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/finding-aids/gerald-l-warren-white-house-special-files-staff-member-and-office-files |title=Gerald L. Warren (White House Special Files: Staff Member and Office Files) |website=nixonlibrary.gov |accessdate=November 20, 2019}}</ref> Warren was the principal presidential spokesman during Nixon administration.
From 1974 to 1975 Warren also served as deputy press secretary to President [[Gerald Ford]]. Warren later returned to work for the ''San Diego Union'' as an editor from 1975 to 1995. During his time here, he worked towards promoting [[San Diego]] and building the community. He was also a strong supporter of [[University of California, San Diego]] programs.<ref name=about />
Warren was one of three original recipients of the Nixon [[Nixon's Enemies List|enemies list]] memo.
Following his service at the White House, he returned to the ''Union-Tribune'' until his retirement in 1995. In 2002, he went into the ministry in [[Alexandria, Virginia]].<ref name=sdut2002Wilkie>{{cite news|last1=Wilkie|first1=Dana|title=Ex-Union-Tribune editor explores his spiritual side|url=http://legacy.utsandiego.com/news/features/20021227-9999_1c27jerry.html|accessdate=March 23, 2015|date=December 27, 2002|work=San Diego Union Tribune|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402152111/http://legacy.utsandiego.com/news/features/20021227-9999_1c27jerry.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Organizations== From 1982 until his death in 2015, Warren was a member of the Chancellor's Associates at UCSD.<ref name=about />
== Personal life == In 1965, Warren married Euphemia Florence Brownell.<ref name="nixonlibrary_warren"/>
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== External links == * [http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/findingaids/mss0306.html Gerald Warren Papers] MSS 306. [http://libraries.ucsd.edu/collections/sca/ Special Collections & Archives], UC San Diego Library. * [http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/ft900007nd/ Register of the Gerald Lee Warren Papers] and [https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/66522 selected documents online] at the Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University.
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