Warren A. Cole

Warren Albert Cole (November 15, 1889 – December 29, 1968) was an American businessman and lawyer and is known as the founder of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. He attended high school at B.M.C. Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts, where he graduated in 1908. While there, he was a member of Alpha Mu Chi, a fraternity that may have shaped his future views for a collegiate organization.

After graduation, a year of work, and a few weeks as a student at Brown University, Cole entered the Boston University School of Law in Boston in 1909, where he became a member of the Gamma Eta Gamma law school fraternity. He started several fraternities that never caught on, including The Lodge, Tombs, and Lambda Pi. After Lambda Pi, he founded Lambda Chi Alpha, meaning "Loyal Collegiate Associates" before its name was changed in 1912.

Cole was one of the three founders of Lambda Chi Alpha when it started on November 2, 1909. He graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1912.

He was also a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, grand chancellor of the Rhode Island Knights of Pythias, a better than 50-year member of the Pioneer Masonic Lodge in Somerset, Massachusetts, and a member of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry.

A future historic marker is planned for Swansea, Massachusetts, to commemorate Cole.