Princewill Pius
While voters might think that Jim Warren’s only claim to fame is being Elizabeth Warren’s first husband, the former IBM mathematician and NASA engineer is pretty accomplished in his own right. According to the Washington Examiner, he co-founded FamilyTreeDNA, a DNA testing company, in 2000 . He also wrote one of the first computer codes for making genetic comparisons. Referred to as the “Warren Project,” the code “was specifically for Y-DNA testing, which tests for patrilineal ancestry.”Jim passed away in 2003, but FamilyTreeDNA lives on and remains one of the top vendors of genetic testing kits alongside 23andMe and Ancestry.
Even though Jim was clearly an exceptional statistician, his relationship with Elizabeth was one equation he could never solve. However, in 2012 Elizabeth told the Boston Globe that there was no love lost between the couple when they parted ways. “We never really fought and never really had hard words; it just didn’t work,” she said.
While Elizabeth has obviously accomplished quite a bit in her life, the senator reveals that she felt like a failure until she divorced her first husband.
Written by: Nicki
