Aubert C. Dunn

Aubert C. Dunn

Aubert Culbertson Dunn (born November 20, 1896 in Meridian , Mississippi , † January 4, 1987 in Mobile , Alabama ) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1937 he represented the fifth constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

His son Winfield Dunn was Governor of Tennessee from 1971 to 1975 .

Career

After primary school, Aubert Dunn studied at the University of Mississippi at Oxford and then at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa . In 1917 he was a reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper. During the First World War he served in the US Navy . After the war he studied law. After his admission as a lawyer in 1924, he began to work in Meridian in his new profession. Between 1931 and 1934 he was a District Attorney in the 10th Judicial District.

Dunn was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1934 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the fifth district of Mississippi . There he replaced Ross A. Collins on January 3, 1935 , who unsuccessfully applied for the Democratic Party's nomination for the US Senate . Dunn served a term in Congress until January 3, 1937 . In 1936 he renounced his candidacy and the seat fell back to Collins.

After his tenure in Congress ended, Dunn served as an advisor to the Senate Finance Committee in 1938. A year later, he was legal advisor to the Social Security Committee. He then worked again as a lawyer with a focus on criminal defense. Between 1952 and 1953 he was employed by the federal prosecutor's office. He eventually became a judge in the Mississippi Tenth District. Dunn spent his twilight years in Mobile, Alabama, where he died in January 1987.

Web links

• Aubert C. Dunn in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Aubert C. Dunn in the database of Find a Grave (English)