Matthew A. Dunn

Matthew Anthony Dunn ( born August 15, 1886 in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, † February 13, 1942 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1941 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Matthew Dunn attended the public schools in Pittsburgh and Meyersdale. Two accidents at the age of 12 or 20 years, he became blind at first to the left and then the right eye. Therefore, he was forced to attend schools for the blind. In 1909 he graduated from the Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia. In the years 1907 and 1908, he sold magazines and newspapers. Later, he worked mainly in the years 1920-1924 in insurance. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. Between 1926 and 1932 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1932, Dunn was in the 34th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Patrick J. Sullivan on March 4, 1933. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1941 four legislative sessions. Since 1939 he was chairman of the Committee on the Census. During his time in Congress, most New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there were adopted, which supported Dunn thrilled. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3.

In 1940, Matthew Dunn waived for health reasons on another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives so he withdrew from the public life. He died on February 13, 1942 in Pittsburgh, where he was also buried.