Joseph Warren

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | 667 words | Copyright

Joseph Warren 1741–75, political leader in the American Revolution, b. Roxbury, Mass. A Boston physician, he participated in the agitation against the Stamp Act (1765). He became a member of the Boston Committee of Safety and in 1774 drafted the Suffolk Resolves, advocating forcible resistance to the British; they were endorsed by the Continental Congress. On the night of Apr. 18, 1775, he dispatched William Dawes and Paul Revere to warn Sam Adams and John Hancock that the British were marching on Concord. Warren was killed in the battle of Bunker Hill (1775).

Bibliography: See biographies by R. Frothingham (1865, repr. 1971) and J. Cary (1961).

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