Richard Warren
Richard Warren (ca. 1580 - ca.1628) was a passenger on the Mayflower on its 1620 voyage from the Old World to the New. He was one of the 41 signers of the Mayflower Compact.
Descendants
His descendants in the United States are legion and include many notable Americans:
- American Civil War general and United States President Ulysses S. Grant,
- United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
- astronaut Alan Shepard,
- children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder,
- actors Richard Gere, Orson Welles, and Joanne Woodward,
- writers Henry David Thoreau and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
- Lavinia Warren (the wife of General Tom Thumb),
- aviator Amelia Earhart,
- United States Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan,
- Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright,
- Tonight Show host Johnny Carson,
- chef Julia Child, and many more.
Richard Warren Media
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882)
Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 1899
