Jennifer Dunn (politician)

Jennifer Blackburn Dunn ( born July 29, 1941 in Seattle, Washington; † September 5, 2007 in Alexandria, Virginia) was an American politician. Between 1993 and 2005, she represented the State of Washington in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jennifer Dunn first attended the Bellevue High School and then studied 1960-1962 at the University of Washington in Seattle and then to 1963 at Stanford University in California. Then she worked for some time for the company IBM. Between 1978 and 1980 she was employed by the district administration in King County.

Politically, she became a member of the Republican Party. From 1981 to 1992 she was a regional party chairman for the state of Washington. In 1984 and 1990 she was a member of the American UN delegation, which dealt with the status of women. In the congressional elections of 1992, Dunn was in the eighth constituency of their state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they became the successor of Rod Chandler on January 3, 1993. After five elections she was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2005, six legislative periods. During this time she was temporarily a member of the Committee on Ways and Means, in the Homeland Security Committee and the Joint Economic Committee. In 2000, she was part of the campaign team of George W. Bush.

In 2004, Dunn opted not to run again for Congress. Instead, she was a staff member working in the federal capital, Washington lobbying firm. In 2007, she supported the incipient presidential campaign of Mitt Romney. Jennifer Dunn died on 5 September 2007 unexpectedly of a pulmonary embolism.