Dunne, Edward Fitzsimmons (1853-1937)

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Anita McCormick Blaine to Jane Addams, June 1905

Comments at the Commercial Club Dinner, April 28, 1906 (excerpts)

Tie on Widening Plan, November 27, 1906 (fragment)

James Keeley to Jane Addams, March 29, 1907

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, June 17, 1909

John Sanborn Phillips to Jane Addams, July 10, 1909

Statement on Illinois State Senate Bill 233 (Child Actor Bill), April 25, 1911

Jane Addams to Julia Clifford Lathrop, August 7, 1911

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, October 23, 1913

Salmon Oliver Levinson to Jane Addams, January 15, 1919

Relief for Russian Women and Children, 1920

Florence Kelley to Paul Underwood Kellogg, February 13, 1920

The Tribune and Miss Addams, February 14, 1920

Charles Edward Merriam Jr. to Jane Addams, December 26, 1921

John P. Altgeld Biography Subscription List, December 1922

Louis Freeland Post to Subscribers of the John P. Altgeld Biography, April 5, 1924

Biographical sketch of Louise deKoven Bowen, ca. 1926

Jane Addams and Edward F. Dunne to Samuel M. Jones, October 8, 1903

Chicago Teamsters' Strike (1905)

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Birth Date

1853-10-12

Death Date

1937-05-24

Birthplace

Waterville, CT

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Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne was trained as a lawyer and served on the Chicago Circuit Court as a judge from 1892-1905. He resigned after being elected the Mayor of Chicago, serving from 1905-1907. Dunne was the mayor when Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was released and dealt repercussions. He then ran for and obtained the position of Governor of Illinois in 1912. Dunne pushed forward many Progressive policies while working in politics. After his stint in politics, he went back to being a lawyer and also wrote a series on the History of Illinois. Dunne died in 1937.

Dunne married Elizabeth F. Kelly in 1881. They had thirteen children, nine survived into adulthood.