Joseph M. Warren

Who was Joseph M. Warren?

Joseph Mabbett Warren was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in Troy, New York, Warren attended the local schools, and in 1827 entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He graduated from the Washington College, Hartford, Connecticut, in 1834. He worked as a clerk in New York for a year and returned to Troy, New York, where he engaged in the wholesale grocery business for several years. He entered the wholesale hardware business in 1840. He was one of the directors of the Bank of Troy and of the United National Bank of Troy, and president of the Bank of Troy 1853-1865. He was also a trustee of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He served as mayor of Troy in 1852. He was appointed as a commissioner of the Troy Water Works Company in 1855 and served until 1867, when he resigned.

Warren was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1872.

Warren resumed his former business activities in Troy, New York, where he died September 9, 1896. He was interred in the Warren Chapel in Oakwood Cemetery.