James Whitney Dunn

James Whitney Dunn ( born July 21, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American politician. Between 1981 and 1983 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Dunn attended the common schools and then studied until 1967 at Michigan State University in East Lansing. He then headed the construction and architectural firm Dunn & Fairmont. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. In 1982 he was a delegate to the regional Republican convention in Michigan.

In the congressional elections of 1980 he was in the sixth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Milton Robert Carr took on 3 January 1981 he had beaten in the election. Since he lost to Carr at the following elections in 1982, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1983.

In 1984, Dunn failed in the primaries of his party for the U.S. Senate to Jack Robert Lousma. In 1986 he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress, where he again defeated Milton Carr. Two years later, another candidate for the Senate; This time, he finished with 38.5 percent of the vote clearly beaten into second place behind incumbent Donald W. Riegle. In 1990 he made the tenth district of Michigan his last, again futile attempt to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He had already failed in the primaries of his party.

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