Joseph E. Warner

Who was Joseph E. Warner?

Joseph Everett Warner was a U.S. politician who served as the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1919 to 1920, as the Attorney General of Massachusetts from 1928 to 1935, and as a Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court from 1940 until his death in 1958.

Warner was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, on May 16, 1884, to Richard Everett Warner and Ida Evelyn Warner. Warner graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Warner was a delegate to the 1920 Republican National Convention.

In 1940 Gov. Leverett Saltonstall appointed Warner to be a Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court.

Warner died in his home of a heart attack on May 30, 1958.