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Jennifer Dunn (politician)

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Speaker
  
Newt Gingrich

Preceded by
  
Barbara Vucanovich

Children
  
Reagan Dunn

Speaker
  
Newt Gingrich

Party
  
Republican Party

Succeeded by
  
Tillie Fowler

Name
  
Jennifer Dunn

Preceded by
  
Susan Molinari

Succeeded by
  
Tillie Fowler


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Role
  
Member of the United States House of Representatives

Died
  
September 5, 2007, Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Education
  
University of Washington, Stanford University, Bellevue High School

Jennifer Jill Dunn (née Blackburn; July 29, 1941 – September 5, 2007) was a prominent Republican member of the United States House of Representatives 1993–2005, representing Washington's 8th congressional district.

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Early life

Born in Seattle, Washington, Dunn grew up in the nearby city of Bellevue, and graduated from Bellevue High School in 1959. She attended the University of Washington, where she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority, and Stanford University, earning business degrees. After graduation, she worked as a systems engineer.

Political career

Dunn was chair of the Washington State Republican Party from 1981 to 1992 and twice a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (1984 and 1990). Elected to the House in 1992, she was Washington's only Republican representative until the Republican Revolution of 1994 when Republicans swept all but two of Washington's nine House seats. In 1998, she became the first woman ever to run for the position of House Majority Leader.

In 2000, she served on the presidential election exploratory committee for then-Texas Governor George W. Bush. Dunn served as Vice-Chairwoman of the Select Committee on Homeland Security and served on the House Ways and Means Committee and the Joint Economic Committee. On October 10, 2002, Dunn voted in favor of authorizing the invasion of Iraq.

Dunn announced in 2004 she would retire from Congress, choosing not to run for re-election. Her seat was eventually filled by King County Sheriff Dave Reichert. She co-chaired the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation with former Representative Calvin Dooley. She also served as co-chair of the campaign organization "Women for Mitt" for presidential candidate Mitt Romney at the time of her death. She was succeeded in the Romney organization by U.S. Representative Kay Granger of Fort Worth, Texas.

Death

Dunn collapsed and died of a pulmonary embolism in 2007, in her Alexandria, Virginia, apartment. Her memorial service was at St. James Cathedral, Seattle.

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