Background
Dunn, Jesse James was born on October 2, 1867 in Channahon. Illinois. Son of James McCann and Alta F. (Lewis) Dunn.
Dunn, Jesse James was born on October 2, 1867 in Channahon. Illinois. Son of James McCann and Alta F. (Lewis) Dunn.
Educated Illinois State Normal School, 1886-1887. Graduate Garden City (Kansas) Business College, 1891. Bachelor of Laws, University of Kansas, 1893.
Admitted to bar, 1893.
Company attorney Woods Company, Oklahoma Ty., 1896-1900. Chairman Democratic Territorial Committee, 1904. Chairman Democratic State Committee, 1906.
Conducted campaign for election of deals to Constitutional Convention and wrote platform on which campaign was waged.
Associate and chief justice Supreme Court of the Oklahoma, 1907-1913. Resigned. Now member Dunn, White & Aiken, Oakland, California.
Mason.
Married Saidee A. Matson, October 2, 1895. Children: Claud Matson, Mistress Alida Constance Rutherford, Dorothea Emily.