Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne

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24th Governor of Illinois
Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne

In office 1913 – 1917
Preceded by	Charles S. Deneen
Succeeded by	Frank O. Lowden
38th Mayor of the City of Chicago
In office 1905 – 1907
Preceded by	Carter Harrison, Jr.
Succeeded by	Fred A. Busse

Born	October 12, 1853(1853-10-12) Watertown, Connecticut
Died	May 24, 1937 (aged 83) Chicago, Illinois
Political party	Democratic

Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne (October 12, 1853–May 24, 1937) was an American politician who was the governor of Illinois from 1913 to 1917 and previously served as the 37th mayor of Chicago from April 5, 1905 to 1907.

Born in 1853 in Watertown, Connecticut, he was a Democrat and died in 1937 in Chicago, Illinois.

In November 1915, Dunne designated state Senator Stephen Canaday of Hillsboro to appear as his representative on the train car along with the Liberty Bell as it passed through southern Illinois on its nationwide tour returning to Pennsylvania from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. After that trip, the Liberty Bell returned to Pennsylvania and will not be moved again.^[1]

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).

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