Mark H. Dunnell

Mark Hill Dunnell ( born July 2, 1823 in Buxton, York County, Maine; † August 9, 1904 in Owatonna, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1871 and 1891 he represented twice the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school, Mark Dunnell studied until 1849 at Waterville College, now Colby College. He then spent five years working as a teacher in Maine. In 1854 he became a deputy in the House of Representatives from Maine; a year later he was a member of the State Senate. In 1855 and from 1857 to 1859, he was appointed as superintendent of the supervision of the public schools of the State of Maine.

Dunnell joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854 and was a delegate to the 1856 Republican National Convention whose first, was nominated on the John Charles Frémont as a presidential candidate. After studying law and its made ​​in 1856 admitted to the bar he began in Portland to work in his new profession. During the first months of the Civil War he was an officer in the army of the Union. In August 1861, he resigned from the military service. From 1861 to 1862 he was an American consul in Veracruz ( Mexico).

In 1865, Dunnell moved to Minnesota. There he settled down first in Winona and in 1867 in Owatonna. In his new home, he continued his political career. In 1867 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Minnesota. From 1867 to 1870 he was also charged in Minnesota with the supervision of the public schools. In the congressional elections of 1870, he was the first electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Morton S. Wilkinson on March 4, 1871. After five confirmations him to undergo six related 1883 legislative sessions in Congress until March 3. In the meantime, he applied unsuccessfully for election as Speaker of this chamber.

In 1882 he opted not to run again. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. In the 1888 elections Dunnell made ​​the re-entry into the Congress. There he took over from the March 4, 1889 Thomas Wilson. Since he was not re-elected in 1890, he could spend just one more term in the U.S. House of Representatives until March 3, 1891. In 1904, Dunnell was again Delegate to Federal Congress of the Republicans, was nominated to the President Theodore Roosevelt for a second term. Dunnell was co-founder and curator of the Pillbury Academy. He died on August 9, 1904 in Owatonna.

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