Volume 13 , Issue 28

Jesse J. Dunn - Oklahoma Territory

Jesse J. Dunn, a Justice of Supreme Court, was born in Illinois into an atmosphere reverberating the debates of Lincoln and Douglas. Jesse's boyhood was spent in Mississippi, near the home of Jefferson Davis. Jesse was educated in Kansas, and shortly after his graduation from the Law Department of the University of Kansas, in 1893, he located in the town of Alva, Oklahoma.

Jesse Dunn shared the trials of the pioneers, and prosperity of those who persisted. Jesse J. dun had a public career as Justice Dunn began as county attorney in Woods county. In 1903, he was elected president of the Oklahoma Bar Association. He was chosen chairman of the Democratic Territorial committee in 1904. The campaign of 1906 for the selection of delegates to the Constitutional Convention was made under Jesse Dunn's management. Jesse J. Dunn was also a Justice of the Supreme Court.

Northwestern Oklahoma State University has one of its buildings named for him. The Jesse Dunn building sets where the "Castle on the Hill" once stood before it burned down in March of 1935, facing North down College Avenue towards downtown Alva, Oklahoma, in Woods county.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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