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Robert D. Warren Sr.

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ15993636 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robert Davis "Bob" Warren Sr. (July 22, 1928 – March 22, 2013) was an American educator and politician.

Born in Sampson County, North Carolina, Warren graduated from North Carolina State University and was an agriculture teacher and principal. He was the director of driver's licenses for North Carolina 1970–1974. He then served in the North Carolina State Senate 1980-1988 from Benson, North Carolina. In 2005 a stretch of Interstate 40 in Johnston and Sampson counties was renamed the Sen. Robert D. Warren Highway. Warren was also conferred the Order of the Long Leaf Pine in 2005.

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“Robert D. Warren Sr.” enters the record as american politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Robert, Warren and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928, 2013, 1970, 1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1928-07-22. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Robert, Warren and American.
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“Robert D. Warren Sr.” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Robert, Warren and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15993636. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1928, 2013, 1970 and 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert D. Warren Sr.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.