Biography of Poindexter Dunn, Bowie County, Texas

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DUNN, Poindexter, 

a Representative from Arkansas; born near Raleigh, Wake County, N.C., November
3, 1834; moved with his father to Limestone County, Ala., in 1837; attended the
country schools, and was graduated from Jackson College, Columbia, Tenn., in
1854; studied law; moved to St. Francis County, Ark., in 1856; elected to the
State house of representatives in 1858; engaged in cotton growing until 1861;
served as a captain in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; was admitted
to the bar in 1867 and commenced the practice of law in Forrest City, Ark.;
presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of Greeley and Brown in 1872 and
of Tilden and Hendricks in 1876; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and to
the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1889); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1888; moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1888 and
continued the practice of law; appointed a special commissioner for the
prevention of frauds on the customs revenue, New York City, in 1893; moved to
Baton Rouge, La., in 1895 and engaged in the construction of railroads; settled
in Texarkana, Bowie County, Tex., in 1905, and died there on October 12, 1914;
interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.