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Democrats did not win that election, it did not cost Dunn any credibility with party officials. He was made the manager for the campaign to elect delegates to the 1906 Oklahoma Constitutional Convention. The resulting delegation was composed of 99 Democrats,1 Independent and 12 Republicans. His skill and ability as a leader and organizer were confirmed.
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unspecified business, until he enlisted in the Union Army, then was assigned to
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Although Dunn had died on July 28, 1926, the partners decided that his name was so valued in the profession that they wished to keep it in their firm after his demise. The body of
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President of the Oklahoma Territory Bar Association in 1903, (serving through 1903-4). He was also unanimously elected chairman of the Oklahoma Territory Democratic Committee. In this new position, he managed the party's strategy to win the next election for the Territory's single
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October 2, 1867, at Channahon, Will County, Illinois to James McCann and Alta Fiorina (née Lewis) Dunn. In 1857, James McCann Dunn worked for a contractor delivering freight to the new Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, but in 1858, he returned to his parents' home and went into some
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Livermore Sanitarium in Oakland on July 28, 1926. Biographer Robert Williams did not identify the cause of death. He did report that the judge was survived by his widow, Saidee (née Matson), and three children: Claud, who was married but had no children, Constance (Mrs. J. M.
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Populists with the regular Democrats in and after the 1906 election. In 1909, the newly constituted Oklahoma Supreme Court adopted a rotation plan for choosing a chief justice. It was agreed that Justice
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College before enrolling in the University of Kansas. Thorburn did not give any details about Dunn's fields of studies, dates of attendance or whether he graduated at either of these
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Francis Marion Cowgill. Meanwhile, the Populist Party continued to decline, so Dunn affiliated with the Democratic Party under William Jennings Bryan's leadership.
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