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JAMES L. WARREN was born in Mahaska County, Iowa, September 23, 1860, and died in Des Moines May 17, 1925. His parents were Robert B. and Emily L. (Bingham) Warren. His boyhood was spent in the farm home. He attended common school and later Penn College for some three years. He read law in the office of Bolton & McCoy of Oskaloosa, was admitted to the bar there in December, 1886, and practiced there until June, 1891, when he removed to Pella and engaged in practice there with his brother, Granville E. Warren, for the first three years, after which he practiced alone. In 1892 Granville E. was elected county attorney, but owing to his failing health he did but little of the work of the office, the duties for the ensuing two years devolving upon James L., who had been made his assistant. In 1899, James L. was elected representative, and was re-elected in 1901, serving in the Twenty eighth and Twenty-ninth assemblies. In 1903 he was elected senator and served in the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second general assemblies. In 1910 he took up the practice of his profession in Des Moines, removing his family there in 1917. From early manhood he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, was a Republican in politics, and most worthy citizen.