Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne
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Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne (October 12, 1853–May 24, 1937) was an American politician. Born in 1853 in Watertown, Connecticut, a Democrat, he was inaugurated as the 31st mayor of Chicago on April 5, 1905; he served until 1907. He was the governor of Illinois from 1913 to 1917. He died in 1937 in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1921 he helped found an organization called the "National Unity Council" to combat the Ku Klux Klan.
[edit] Scholarly Biography
- Richard Allen Morton, Justice and Humanity: Edward F. Dunne, Illinois Progressive (1997).
| Preceded by: Carter Harrison, Jr. | Mayor of Chicago 1905–1907 | Succeeded by: Fred A. Busse |
| Preceded by: Charles S. Deneen | Governor of Illinois 1913–1917 | Succeeded by: Frank O. Lowden |
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| Governors of Illinois
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| Bond • Coles • Edwards • Reynolds • Ewing • Duncan • Carlin • Ford • French • Matteson • Bissell • Wood • Yates • Oglesby • Palmer • Oglesby • Beveridge • Cullom • Hamilton • Oglesby • Fifer • Altgeld • Tanner • Yates • Deneen • Dunne • Lowden • Small • Emmerson • Horner • Stelle • Green • Stevenson • Stratton • Kerner • Shapiro • Ogilvie • Walker • Thompson • Edgar • Ryan • Blagojevich |
