Dunn.George.1812.Unknown.BIOS HON. GEORGE G. DUNN, deceased, was a native of Kentucky, born in December, 1812, and when yet a boy settled in Monroe County, Indiana, where he received the greater part of his schooling. While a member of the junior class in the State University, he quit college and for a time was engaged in school teaching in Switzerland County, Indiana, but in 1833 located in Bedford, where he identified himself as an instructor in the public schools, occupying his spare hour in reading law. He was admitted to the Lawrence County Bar and soon afterward became associated with Col. R. W. THOMPSON, ex-Secretary of the Navy, in the practice of his profession. While serving as Prosecuting Attorney of his circuit he became widely known, and being an ardent Whig in politics, became the nominee of his party for Congress. Although in a district strongly Democratic, he was elected after a heated contest by twenty-two votes, and served with marked ability. Succeeding this he was elected to the Indiana State Senate, but in 1852 resigned his seat to look after a large law practice which he could no longer neglect. In 1854 he became an Independent candidate for Congressional honors, and after one of the most sprited campaigns in which Mr. Dunn was ever engaged he was elected with a majority of 1,660 votes. The exposure and hard work of this campaign were, no doubt, the ultimate cause of his death. He lived to serve in the session to which he had been elected, and diee in September, 1857, regretted by many warm friends. Without flattery to the memory of Mr. Dunn, it can be honestly said that he was possessed of legal and legistlative attainments unsurpassed by any man of his day in Sourthern Indiana. He was an eloquent and effective speaker and a man of undoubted integrity and great personal courage. Submitted by: Diana Flynn Date: 25 Jun 1997