13 Facts About Warren Chase

Warren Chase was an American pioneer, farmer, reformer and politician.

Warren Chase served in the state senates of Wisconsin and California, and was a candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in the election of 1849.

Warren Chase was the son of Susanna Durgin, who was unmarried at the time.

Warren Chase's mother was maligned by the community and expelled from the church for giving birth out of wedlock, making it difficult to provide for herself and Warren.

Simon Chase fought in the War of 1812 and died at Plattsburgh in the fall of 1814, when Warren was not yet two years old.

Warren Chase's mother died only a few years later, when Warren was five.

Warren Chase later described this time as a miserable experience and compared his servitude to slavery.

Warren Chase did not receive an education with the Fogg family, and at age fourteen was still not able to read or write.

On March 23,1844, a formal meeting of phalanx supporters was held at the Southport village schoolhouse, officers were elected, and a group of three, including Warren Chase, were tapped as trustees of the phalanx.

Warren Chase was a supporter of the temperance, abolitionist, and spiritualist movements and wrote books and articles.

Warren Chase served in the two Wisconsin Constitutional Conventions of 1846 and 1847 and was elected to the first Wisconsin Senate from 4th Senate district as a Democrat.

Warren Chase was a supporter of free silver, anti-monopolism, and Chinese exclusion, although on the latter point he condemned racial violence like the San Francisco riot of 1877.

Warren Chase died in Cobden, Illinois, in 1891, and was buried at Cobden Cemetery.