Template:Wp-James Warren (politician)

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James Warren (September 28, 1726 – November 28, 1808) was an American merchant, politician and military officer who served as the speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1787 to 1788. A supporter of resistance to British policies during the American Revolution, Warren served as the Continental Army's Paymaster-General in the Revolutionary War before pursuing a lengthy political career.

Born in Plymouth, Massachusetts to an affluent colonial family, Warren studied at Harvard College from 1745 to 1747 before settling down in his hometown to a career as a merchant and gentleman farmer. In 1757, Warren married Mercy Otis, who shared his republican beliefs and eventually bore him five children. In 1766, Warren was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, continuing to sit in the house until 1778.

When tensions increased between Great Britain and its colonies in North America, Warren become a prominent supporter of the Patriot cause, jointly forming a committee of correspondence in Massachusetts. Warren also served as a delegate to the first Massachusetts Provincial Congress in October 1774, and was president of the third Provincial Congress from 1775 to 1780 after Joseph Warren was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill.

During the Revolutionary War, Warren served as Paymaster-General from 1775 to 1776. Warren was appointed as a major-general of the Massachusetts Militia in 1776, but resigned a year later. In 1787, Warren was elected as the speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he opposed the Constitution's ratification. Warren retired from politics in 1794, retiring to Plymouth where he died on November 27, 1808.