Lindsay Carter Warren
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Lindsay Carter Warren (16 December 1889 - 28 December 1976) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1925 and 1940.
Born in Washington, North Carolina, Warren studied at Bingham School in Asheville from 1903 to 1906. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1906 to 1908 and then from 1911 to 1912 (the second time studying law). He was admitted to the bar in 1912 and practiced law in his hometown of Washington.
That same year, he was named county attorney for Beaufort County, North Carolina, and elected the chairman of the executive committee for the county Democratic Party; he would hold both posts until 1925. He was elected to the North Carolina Senate in 1917 and 1919, serving as Senate president pro tem in 1919 and 1920, and as the chair of the special legislative commission on workmen's compensation acts.
In 1923, Warren was sent to the North Carolina House of Representatives for a single term before being elected, in 1924, to the 69th United States Congress. He was re-elected seven times, serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from March 4, 1925 until November 1, 1940, when he resigned from Congress. During the 72nd through 75th Congresses, he was chairman of the Committee on Accounts. He was also a delegate to the Democratic National Committee in 1932 and 1940, and chaired the North Carolina Democratic Convention in 1930 and 1934.
Warren left Congress to accept the post of Comptroller General of the United States, serving in that role for almost fourteen years, until May 1, 1954. He returned to the North Carolina House for two additional terms in 1959 and 1961, and died in 1976 in his hometown of Washington, North Carolina.
A 2.8 mile bridge, one of the longest in North Carolina, was built in 1960 over the Alligator River and is named in honor of Warren.
