History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Co.,'s Indiana
Goodspeed Bros. and Co., 1884

     HON, GEORGE G, DUNN, deceased, was a native of Kentucky, born in December 
1812, and when yet a boy settled in Monroe County, Ind., 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, but in 1833 located in Bedford, where he 
identified himself as an instructor in the public schools, occupying his spare 
hours 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 1864 he became an Independent candidate 
for Congressional honors, and after one of the most spirited campaigns in 
which Mr. Dunn was every engaged he was elected with a majority of 1,668 
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 died 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 legislative attainments unsurpassed by any man of 
his day in Southern Indiana.  He was an eloquent and effective speaker and a 
man of undoubted integrity and great personal courage.




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