Charles Dudley Warner

Charles Dudley Warner ( born September 12, 1829 in Plainfield, Massachusetts, † October 20, 1900 in Hartford, Connecticut ) was an American lawyer, journalist and writer.

Life

Warner was born of Puritan parents.

Until 1851 he attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Later he studied law at the University of Pennsylvania. Between 1856 and 1860 he practiced in Chicago. He worked as a journalist and in 1861 as editor of The Hartford Courant.

Warner was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, was later to become the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and until his death president of the American Social Science Association.