George G. Dunn

George Grundy Dunn ( born December 20 1812 Washington County, Kentucky; † September 4, 1857 in Bedford, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1847 and 1857 he represented two times the state of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his youth was George Dunn in the Monroe County, Indiana, where he attended preparatory schools. He studied at Indiana University in Bloomington. Since 1833, Dunn was a resident of Bedford, where he worked as a teacher. After a subsequent law studies and his 1835 was admitted to a lawyer, he began practicing in Bedford in this profession. In 1842, he was prosecutor in Lawrence County.

Politically, Dunn joined the Whig party to. In the congressional elections of 1846 he was in the sixth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Wesley Davis on March 4, 1847. Since he has not been confirmed in 1848, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1849. This was marked by the events of the Mexican-American War.

In the years 1850 to 1852 George Dunn was a member of the State Senate. After the dissolution of his party, he became a member of the short-lived opposition party. In the congressional elections of 1854 Dunn was elected in the third district of his state as the successor of Cyrus L. Dunham again in Congress, where he was able to complete a further term of between 4 March 1855 to 3 March 1857 and from the events discussions leading to the Civil War was intended.

1856 renounced George Dunn on another candidacy. He died on September 4, 1857, just six months after the end of his term in the U.S. House of Representatives, in Bedford, where he was also buried.