Joseph Warren Jefferson (1869-1919) was elected to The Lambs in 1913 as a Non-Resident member. He was the son of beloved Lamb Joseph Jefferson, and his second wife, Sarah Warren (1849-1921).
He was born July 6, 1869. Like all of his siblings, he was destined for the stage. He and his brothers all worked with their father in dramatic productions and lived in his long shadow. Young Joseph summered with the family in Cape Cod and spent the winter in Palm Beach.
In 1891 he married actress Blanche Beatrice Bender in Brooklyn. They had a son, Warren, and a daughter, Marion. His son, Warren J. Jefferson, resided in Louisiana near the Jefferson Island plantation.
Jefferson appeared in two Vaudeville sketches by fellow Lamb William C. DeMille, “In 1999” and “Poor Old Jim.”
Joseph Warren Jefferson died May 1, 1919, after a battle with cancer at his home 175 W. 72nd Street. He was 49 years old. He is interred in the Cemetery of the Evergreens in Brooklyn.