Background
Charles Dunn was born on December 28, 1799 at Bullitt’s Old Lick, Bullitt County, Kentucky, United States. He was the son of John and Amy (Burks) Dunn. His father was a native of Dublin, Ireland, and his mother was from Virginia.
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Charles Dunn was born on December 28, 1799 at Bullitt’s Old Lick, Bullitt County, Kentucky, United States. He was the son of John and Amy (Burks) Dunn. His father was a native of Dublin, Ireland, and his mother was from Virginia.
Dunn attended schools in Louisville for several years, and had business experience before studying law. He read law under the direction of two prominent lawyers of Louisville and Frankfort. Removing to Illinois in 1819, he completed his law studies and was admitted to the bar in 1820.
Dunn entered practise at Jonesboro, Illinois. In 1829 Dunn was appointed acting commissioner of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and with his associates surveyed and platted the first town of Chicago.
During the Black Hawk War he served as captain of an Illinois company which he had raised. Resuming practise after the war at Golconda, Illinois, he was elected in 1835 to the House of Representatives of the Illinois legislature.
In the spring of 1836, he was appointed by President Jackson chief justice of the newly created territory of Wisconsin. This position he held for twelve years, until Wisconsin became a state in 1848, when a state elective judiciary was organized. His office as territorial chief justice was no sinecure. Not only did he preside over the appellate court of three judges, but he served as well as nisi prius judge of one of the three districts into which the territory was divided. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1847-48 which framed the constitution of Wisconsin, serving as chairman of the judiciary committee. The power reserved to the legislature to alter or repeal the charter of any corporation created by it was his work. After retiring from the bench, he served as a senator in the state legislatures of 1853-56.
He was a Democratic candidate for Congress in 1858 and for justice of the supreme court in 1860, but as the candidate of the minority party without hope of election.
On moving to Wisconsin, Dunn had made his home at Belmont, LaFayette County, for a short period the capital of the territory. In this hamlet in southwestern Wisconsin he lived the remainder of his life. After retiring from the bench he resumed the active practise of law. He died and was buried at Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
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In 1821 Dunn married Mary E. Schrader, a daughter of Judge Otto Schrader.