WARREN, JOSEPH (i741-1775), American soldier and patriot, born at Roxbury (Mass.), June 11, 1741. He graduated at Harvard College in 1759, studied medicine at Boston, and soon acquired a high reputation in his profession. The passage of the Stamp Act aroused his patriotic sympathies and brought him in close connection with Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Josiah Quincy, Jr., as a leader of the popular party. He drafted the "Suffolk Resolves," which urged forcible opposition to Great Britain, if such should be necessary, pledged submission to such measures as the Continental Congress might recommend, and favoured the calling of a provincial congress. These "resolves"
were unanimously adopted by a convention at Milton (q.v.) on Sept. 9, 1774. Warren was a member of the first three provincial congresses (1774-75), president of the third, and an active mem ber of the committee of public safety. On June 14, he was commissioned a major general, but three days later, and before his commission was made out, he took part as a volunteer, under the orders of Putnam and Prescott, in the battle of Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill), where he was killed.