What is Richard Warren?
'''Richard Warren''' (ca. 1580 - ca.1628) was a passenger on the ''[[Mayflower (ship)|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. ==References== *[http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ssimonw&id=I1 Rootsweb] {{Mayflower articles}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Warren, Richard}} [[Category:Mayflower passengers]] [[Category:1580 births]] [[Category:1628 deaths]] {{bio-stub}}