James D. Warren

'''James Dunlap Warren''' (January 12, 1823 – December 17, 1886) was an American newspaper publisher and politician from New York.

== Early life == Warren was born on January 12, 1823, in Bennington, New York, the son of Orsamus Warren (1800–1876) and Nancy ({{nee}} Joslyn) Warren (1800–1843).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cutter|first=William Richard|url=https://archive.org/details/genealogicaland03cuttgoog/page/n205/mode/2up|title=Genealogical and Family History of Western New York|publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company|year=1912|volume=I|location=New York, N.Y.|pages=137–138|author-link=William Richard Cutter|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

Warren moved to Wales with his family when he was two, later to Clarence. Growing up, he worked on the family farm and his father's store while attending school. When he was 20, he toured the South and spent a year in Natchez, Mississippi. After he returned North, he spent a few years working as a merchant and farmer in Clarence.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924092228422/page/146/mode/2up|title=Memorial and Family History of Erie County, New York|publisher=The Genealogical Publishing Company|year=1908|volume=I|pages=147–149}}</ref>

==Career== In 1854, he was elected County Treasurer of Erie County for a three-year term. He also served several terms as town supervisor and a few terms as clerk of the board of supervisors.<ref name=":1"/>

In 1861, Warren purchased the ''Buffalo Commercial Advertiser'' with Rufus Wheeler and Joseph Candee under the firm name Rufus Wheeler & Co. In 1862, Candee retired, James N. Matthews acquired an interest, and the firm was renamed Wheeler, Matthews & Warren. In 1865, Wheeler retired and Matthews became the chief editor of the newspaper. The new firm Matthews & Warren continued until 1877, when it was dissolved and Warren was left as the paper's sole proprietor for the rest of his life. After he died, his sons continued running the paper under the firm name James D. Warren's Sons.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IxIzAQAAIAAJ|title=Our County and Its People: A Descriptive Work on Erie County, New York|publisher=The Boston History Company|year=1898|editor-last=White|editor-first=Truman C.|volume=I|pages=816–817|via=Google Books}}</ref> He was also president of White's Bank in Buffalo.<ref name=":1" />

A member of the Republican Party since its inception, Warren became of the most outspoken Republicans in Buffalo. He was a delegate to nearly every state convention from 1871 to 1885 and served as Chairman of the New York Republican State Committee from 1883 to 1884. He was a delegate to the 1880 Republican National Convention, where he was one of the 306 delegates that supported General Grant through the entire convention. He was also a delegate to the 1884 Republican National Convention, where he supported Chester A. Arthur.<ref name=":0" />

==Personal life== Warren was a Presbyterian. In 1845, he married Laura Love of Clarence. Their son was born in 1846.<ref name="OGWObit1892">{{cite news |title=OBITUARY. {{!}} ORSAMUS G. WARREN |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1892/05/07/archives/obituary.html |access-date=18 January 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=7 May 1892}}</ref> In 1853, Warren married his second wife, Mary Smith Mills, with whom he had three more children:<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015078229153&view=1up&seq=685|title=The National Cyclopædia of American Biography|publisher=James T. White & Company|year=1939|volume=XXVII|location=New York, N.Y.|pages=365|via=HathiTrust}}</ref>

Warren died at his Buffalo home on December 17, 1886.<ref>{{Cite news|date=18 December 1886|title=James D. Warren|volume=XLVI|page=5|work=New-York Tribune|issue=14643|location=New York, N.Y.|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1886-12-18/ed-1/seq-5/|via=Chronicling America}}</ref> He was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery.

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== External links == * [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33414909/james-dunlap-warren James D. Warren] at ''Find a Grave'' {{S-start}} {{S-ppo}} {{Succession box | title = Chairman of the New York Republican State Committee | years = 1883–1884 | before = B. Platt Carpenter | after = Chester S. Cole }} {{S-end}}

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