Aubert C. Dunn

Aubert Culbertson Dunn ( born November 20, 1896 in Meridian, Mississippi; † January 4, 1987 in Mobile, Alabama ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1937 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school Aubert Dunn studied at the University of Mississippi in Oxford and then at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. In 1917 he was a reporter for the newspaper " Cincinnati Enquirer ". During World War II he served in the U.S. Navy. After the war he studied law. After his made ​​in 1924 admitted to the bar he began in Meridian to work in his new profession. Between 1931 and 1934 he was district attorney for the tenth judicial district.

Dunn was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1934 he was selected in the fifth district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he broke on January 3, 1935 Ross A. Collins from, who unsuccessfully ran for the nomination of the Democratic Party for the U.S. Senate. Dunn completed until January 3, 1937 legislative session in Congress. In 1936 he gave up for reelection and the seat fell back to Collins.

After the end of his time in Congress Dunn in 1938 was an advisor to the Finance Committee of the U.S. Senate in years. A year later he was legal adviser to the Social Committee. He then worked again as a lawyer with an emphasis as a trial lawyer. Between 1952 and 1953 he was employed by the Federal Prosecutor's Office. Eventually he became a judge in the tenth judicial district of Mississippi. End of his life spent Dunn in Mobile ( Alabama), where he died in January 1987.

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