SAN DIEGO — Jerry Warren, the editor of San Diego’s largest newspaper for 20 years and a White House press secretary during the Nixon and Ford administrations, died Friday at a hospital in Arlington, Virginia. He was 84.
Warren was assistant managing editor of The San Diego Union in 1969 when President-elect Richard Nixon hired him as deputy press secretary. He served through Richard Nixon’s resignation and into the presidency of Gerald Ford until 1975.
He returned to journalism, becoming editor of The San Diego Union and later the merged publication San Diego Union-Tribune until 1995.
Warren’s daughter tells U-T San Diego that he devoted his final years to his faith. He earned a master’s degree in theology and led a four-year ministry education program.