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Dunn was born in Meridian, Mississippi. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1950 with a B.B.A., and from the University of Tennessee Medical Units in Memphis in 1955 with a D.D.S. Dunn served with the U.S. Navy in the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre during World War II. Dunn was also a reserve lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force.

Settling in Memphis after completing dental school there, Dr. Dunn established a flourishing practice and soon became active in local Republican politics. The SouthernSouth Location in the U. Population: 99,664,761 Total Area: 2,384,143 km² Largest City (proper): Houston, Texas 2,009,834 Highest Elevation: Guadalupe Peak 2,667 m Lowest Elevation: New Orleans -2. 5 m Largest State: Texas 696,241 km² Smallest State: Dela politicalPolitics is the process and method of decision-making for groups of human beings. Although it is generally applied to governments, politics is also observed in all human group interactions including corporate, academic, and religious. Political science is landscape was changing rapidly at that time, and Dunn rose to the position of chairman of the Shelby CountyShelby County is a county in the U. state of Tennessee. Its county seat is Memphis 6. Geography According to the U. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,030 km² (784 mi²). 1,954 km² (755 mi²) of it is land and 75 km² (29 mi²) of it is water. Republican Party. There was a massive crossover of voters in the South from the Democratic Partylogo depicts a stylized donkey in red, white, and blue. The Democratic Party is one of the two major United States political parties. The Party is currently the minority in both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, as w to the Republican Party in the late 1960sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around, and the trend was stronger nowhere than among whiteCaucasian is originally a geographical term, meaning relative or pertaining to the Caucasus region of eastern Europe. It has in time acquired other specific meanings: in linguistics, the Caucasian languages are a large number of languages spoken in the Ca voters in Memphis. Dunn was a delegate to the 1968Events Undated Booker Prize for Fiction is established by Booker plc. 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots. The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3. Nauru adopt his national anthem of the Republican National ConventionThe Republican National Convention the presidential nominating convention of the United States Republican Party, is held every four years to determine the party's candidate for the coming Presidential election and the party's platform. In the past this is.

In 1970, Dunn decided to run for the Republican nomination for governor of Tennessee. The party had not even fielded a nominee in the gubernatorial election four years prior, but suddenly the nomination seemed valuable, in large measure to the factors cited above, and in the primary Dunn defeated four opponents, including 1962 Republican nominee Hubert Patty, then-Speaker of the Tennessee House (and now-Congressman) Bill Jenkins, and industrialist Maxey Jarman, head of Genesco Corp. After winning the Republican nomination, Dunn defeated attorney and entreprenuer John Jay Hooker, the Democratic nominee, becoming the first Republican elected governor of Tennessee in half a century. During his tenure, Governor Dunn was a member of the National Governors' Conference Executive Committee from 1971-1973, and he chaired the Education Commission of the States from 1972 to 1973 and the Republican Governors Association from 1973 to 1974.

The Tennessee State Constitution did not allow governors to succeed themselves at the time that Dunn's term expired in 1975. He did not return to the practice of dentistry, however, but remained in Nashville as a businessman. He was prevailed upon to be the 1986 Republican nominee for governor against Democrat Ned McWherter, against his better judgement according to some sources, and ran a lackluster campaign and was beaten fairly badly. One of the factors was Dunn's opposition to the state's opening and operating a second medical school in Johnson City while he was governor, preferring to devote more resources to the existing one in Memphis instead. This incurred the opposition of powerful Congresssman Jimmy Quillen, a key fixture in East Tennessee Republican politics, and other East Tennessee Republicans. Without the support of Quillen or many other East Tennessee Republicans, Dunn's 1986 campaign stood almost no chance.

Retiring from active politics, Dunn returned to his business interests, especially banking, with notably strong results. He continues to serve the Tennessee Republican Party as something of an "elder statesman" who is still very popular with grass-roots party members in Middle Tennessee and West Tennessee.