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| Keywords: Mark Dunnell - Brady-Handy.jpg Dunnell Hon M H of Minn Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Brady-Handy Photograph Collection http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cwpbh 04164 CALL NUMBER LC-BH832- 227 <P P>P P between 1865 1880 Creator Mathew Brady Creator Levin Corot Handy PD LOC-image cwpbh 04164 Minnesota; born in Buxton York County Maine July 2 1823; completed preparatory studies and was graduated from Waterville College now Colby College Waterville in 1849; for five years was principal of Norway and Hebron Academies; member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1854; served in the Maine Senate in 1855; State superintendent of common schools in 1855 and 1857-1859; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1856; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Portland in 1860; entered the Union Army as colonel of the Fifth Regiment May 6 1861; mustered out August 31 1861; United States consul at Vera Cruz in 1861 and 1862; moved to Minnesota and settled in Winona in 1865 and in 1867 in Owatonna; member of the Minnesota house of representatives in 1867; State superintendent of public instruction from April 2 1867 to August 1870 when he resigned; elected as a Republican to the Forty-second and to the five succeeding Congresses March 4 1871 March 3 1883 ; unsuccessful candidate for Speaker of the Forty-seventh Congress; was not a candidate for renomination in 1882; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1883; elected to the Fifty-first Congress March 4 1889 March 3 1891 ; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892; one of the founders and a member of the board of trustees of Pillsbury Military Academy now Pillsbury Baptist Bible College ; died in Owatonna Steele County August 9 1904; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery This summary was created using Commons SumItUp PD-Brady-Handy DEFAULTSORT Dunnell Mark H 1823 births 1904 deaths Members of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota Members of the Minnesota House of Representatives Members of the Maine House of Representatives Maine State Senators Officers of the Union Army Photographs by Mathew Brady and Levin Handy Republicans from Minnesota | ||||
