James Whitney Dunn

James Whitney Dunn

James Whitney Dunn (born July 21, 1943 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American politician . Between 1981 and 1983 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Dunn attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1967 at Michigan State University in East Lansing . He then headed the construction and architecture company Dunn & Fairmont . At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1982 he was a delegate to the Michigan regional Republican party convention.

In the congressional elections of 1980 he was in the sixth constituency of Michigan in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC chosen, where he succeeded the on January 3, 1981 Democrats Milton Robert Carr took, whom he had defeated in the election. Since he lost to Carr in the following elections in 1982, he was only able to serve one term in Congress until January 3, 1983 .

In 1984 Dunn failed in his party's primary election for the US Senate to Jack Robert Lousma . In 1986 he competed unsuccessfully to return to Congress, again losing to Milton Carr. Another candidacy for the Senate followed two years later; this time, with 38.5 percent of the vote, he was clearly beaten in second place behind incumbent Donald W. Riegle . In 1990 he made his last, again unsuccessful attempt to be elected to the US House of Representatives in the tenth district of Michigan. He already failed in his party's primary elections.

Today James Dunn lives in East Lansing.

Web links

• James Whitney Dunn in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)