Thomas B. Dunn

Thomas Byrne Dunn ( born March 16, 1853 in Providence, Rhode Iceland, † July 2, 1924 in Rochester, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1923 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Already in 1858 moved Thomas Dunn with his parents to Rochester, New York where he attended the public schools and the De Graff Military Institute. Later he produced, among other perfumes. In the years 1905 and 1906 he was president of the Chamber of Commerce in Rochester. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. In the years 1907 and 1908 he was a member of the Senate from New York. In 1907 he was commissioner of the State of the Jamestown tercentennial exposure in Jamestown (Virginia) and in 1908 he became Minister of Finance ( Treasurer ) of his state.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Dunn was in the then newly established 38th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1913. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1923 five legislative sessions. In 1913 the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified. It was about the nationwide introduction of the income tax and the direct election of U.S. senators. During his time in Congress and the First World War fell. Also, were ratified in 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages or to the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.

In 1922, Thomas Dunn gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he withdrew into retirement. He died on July 2, 1924 in Rochester, where he was also buried.