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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaWilliam McKee DUNN
(1814-1887)
DUNN, William McKee, a
Representative from Indiana; born in Hanover, Jefferson County,
Territory of Indiana, December 12, 1814; attended school in the
first schoolhouse in Hanover; was graduated from Indiana State
College in 1832 and from Yale College in 1835; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1837 and practiced; member of the State
house of representatives in 1848; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1850; elected as a Republican to the
Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3,
1863); chairman, Committee on Patents (Thirty-seventh Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth
Congress; served in the Union Army as a volunteer aide-de-camp to
General McClellan from June 19, 1861, to August 1861, in the
campaign in western Virginia; major and judge advocate of
Volunteers, Department of the Missouri, from March 13, 1863, to
July 6, 1864; appointed lieutenant colonel and Assistant Judge
Advocate General of the United States Army June 22, 1864, and
brigadier general and Judge Advocate General December 1, 1875;
brevetted brigadier general March 13, 1865; retired January 22,
1881; died at his summer residence, “Maplewood,” Dunn
Loring, Fairfax County, Va., July 24, 1887; interment in Oak Hill
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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