Joseph Warren Ray (May 25, 1849 – September 15, 1928) was aRepublican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania.
Joseph W. Ray was born nearNineveh, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and was graduated fromWaynesburg College inWaynesburg, Pennsylvania, in 1874. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1876 and commenced practice in Waynesburg. Ray was elected as a Republican to theFifty-first Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in1890.
He resumed the practice of law in Waynesburg and served as atrustee of Waynesburg College from 1902 until his death. He was elected president judge of the thirteenth judicial district of Pennsylvania in 1915 and served until 1926. He declined to be a candidate for reelection, and again resumed the practice of law in Waynesburg, where he died in 1928. Interment in Greenmont Cemetery.
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