Background
Warne was born in 1900 in the Finger Lakes region of New New York His father managed a country store, farmed, and participated in the local Presbyterian church.
Warne was born in 1900 in the Finger Lakes region of New New York His father managed a country store, farmed, and participated in the local Presbyterian church.
Bachelor of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1920; Master of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1921; Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1925; Master of Arts (honorary), Amherst College, 1942, 80; honorary degree, Bowie State College, 1977.
Clerk, Tompkins County National Bank, Ithaca, New York, 1919;
with accounting department, Federal Reserve Bank New York, 1919-1920;
assistant economics, Cornell Univercity, 1919-1920;
instructor, Cornell Univercity, 1920-1921;
instructor economics, U. Pittsburgh, 1921-1922;
instructor economics, University of Chicago, 1922-1925;
associate professor, U. Denver, 1925-1926;
assistant professor economics, U. Pittsburgh, 1926-1930;
assistant professor economics, Bryn Mawr Summer School Industrial Workers, 1927-1929, 31, 32, 34;
associate professor, Amherst College, 1930-1942;
professor, Amherst College, 1942-1970;
professor emeritus, Amherst College, 1970-1987;
Visiting lecturer, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1938, 46;
visiting professor, Smith College, 1939;
visiting professor, Connecticut College for Women, 1940-1942, 45-46, 48;
President, Consumers Union United States, 1936-1980;
president emeritus, Consumers Union United States, 1980-1987;
president, International Organisation of Consumers Unions, 1960-1970;
treasurer, International Organisation of Consumers Unions, 1970-1972;
Executive Committee, International Organisation of Consumers Unions, 1972-1987. American specialist cultural exchange program unites states department State, 1962. Mem.Industry Panels, Wage and Hour Administration, unites states department Labor, 1943-1944.
Consultant United States Coordinator of Fisheries, 1943. Member consumers advisory com.OPA, 1944, regional consumer adviser, 1946. Board directors Cooperative League United States of America, 1926-1929, National Association Consumers, 1947.
Consumer advising committee New York State, 1955-1959, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1959-1964. Member President's Committee on Consumer Interests, 1946-1965. President People's Lobby, Washington, 1934-1936, vice president, 1941.
Honorary vice president National Consumers League, 1941. Member consumer advising committee President's Council Economics Advisers, 1947-1951, vice chairman, 1948. Member preparatory commission White House Conference on Aging, 1970, ad hoc advisor, 1981.
Member National Consumer Energy committee Federal Energy Office, 1973-1974. Member consumer advising committee Federal Energy Administration, 1974-1976. Member panel on consumer products National Research Council, 1980-1987.
He testified before the House Committee, when it investigated charges of Communism in the consumer movement.
Chairman academic freedom committee American Federation Teachers, 1936-1937. Chairman Pittsburgh branch American Civil Liberties Union, 1927-1930, Western Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee, 1938-1941. Served asapprentic seaman United States Naval Reserve Force, 1918.
Member American Economics Association, American Arbitration Association (panel arbitrators 1945-1987), American Association of University Professors (council 1938-1942), American Marketing Association, Artus.
Married Frances Lee Corbett, October 27, 1920. Children– Clinton Lee, Margaret C. Nelson, Barbara Newell.