Dewey K. Warren (December 8, 1820 – October 11, 1866) was a doctor from Delafield, Wisconsin who served a single term as a member of the first Wisconsin State Assembly in the 1st Wisconsin Legislature of 1848.

Biography

Warren was born in Canada on December 8, 1820. The Warrens stay in Canada was brief as children after Dewey were born in the US. Sylvanus’s father Asa left for Canada in the late 1790s and died in Stormont, Upper Canada in 1807. He was a Democratic member of the Assembly during the 1848 session.[1] He was also the Sheriff of Waukesha County, Wisconsin.[2] He would be succeeded by fellow Democrat Albert Alden. Eventually becoming a physician, he and his wife Sarah, had one daughter, Ann. His brother, Stephen Warren, was also a member of the Assembly. Warred died on October 11, 1866, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was buried in Hartland, Wisconsin.

References

  1. ↑ Lawrence S. Barish, ed. (2007). State of Wisconsin Blue Book. p. 184.
  2. ↑ Abram D. Smith (1861). Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin (10th ed.). Madison, Wis.: Atwood, Rublee & Reed. p. 499.


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