Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne (October 12, 1853 – May 24, 1937) was an American
politician
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, lawyer, and jurist who was the 38th
mayor
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of
Chicago
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from 1905 to 1907 and the
24th Governor of
Illinois
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from 1913 to 1917. Dunne is the only person to be elected both Mayor of Chicago and Governor of Illinois. He also served as a judge of the
Illinois circuit court
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for
Cook County
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from 1892 to 1905.
Early years
Born in 1853, in
Watertown, Connecticut
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, he was the son of an ardent
Irish nationalist
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,
Patrick William (P. W.) Dunne (1832–1921), who emigrated to America in 1849 after the failed
Young Ireland
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revolt
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.
[Morton, Richard Allen. ''Justice and Humanity: Edward F. Dunne, Illinois Progressive Insurance.'' p. 1-4. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.] After moving to the United States, his father remained an ardent backer of Irish independence.
His mother, Delia Mary (Mary) Lawlor, was the daughter of a prosperous Irish
contractor, and participant in the
Irish Rebellion of 1798
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, who helped construct the docks of
Galway
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.
The family moved to
Peoria, Illinois
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in 1855 while Dunne was still an infant, and he was educated there in the public schools.
[Curtis, Georgina Pell.''The American Catholic Who's Who, Vol 1.'' p. 179-180. Washington, DC, 1910.] Dunne had three sisters. His father refused to send his son to the local Catholic academy, because the Catholic Church had spoken out against the activities of the
Fenians
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.
P. W. Dunne was a prosperous businessman, active in both Irish and American politics.
He raised money for the Fenians, gave generously of his own funds, and frequently hosted Irish politicians, political exiles, and rebels in his home when they traveled to Chicago.
P. W. Dunne served on the Peoria City Council in the 1860s and was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives.
Education and early career
After Dunne graduated from high school in Peoria in 1871, he was sent to Ireland to attend
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in
Dublin
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.
His father wanted his son to be educated at the alma mater of Irish patriot,
Robert Emmet
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.
Among his classmates was the author
Oscar Wilde
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.
Dunne did extremely well at Trinity, but was forced to leave one year short of graduation, after his father suffered a financial setback.
Dunne returned to Illinois, and finished his education at
Union College of Law
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in Chicago (that was jointly run by
Northwestern University
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and the
Old University of Chicago
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The school, founded in 1856 by Baptist church leaders, was called the "University of Chicago" (or, interchangeably, "Ch ...
), where his family had settled in 1877.
He graduated from the Union College of Law in 1878. He married Elizabeth F. Kelly, the daughter of Edward F. Kelly, a Chicago businessman, and his wife, Kitty Howe Kelly, on August 16, 1881. Following his marriage he started a prosperous legal practice. The Dunnes had thirteen children, with nine of them surviving into adulthood.
His children included: Eileen Dunne Corboy, Mona T. Leonard, Maurice Dunne, Richard Dunne, Jeanette Dunne, Edward F. Dunne, Jr., Geraldine Dunne, Eugene Dunne, and Judge Robert Jerome "Duke" Dunne.
Circuit court judgeship
In 1892, at age 28, Dunne was elected judge of
Cook County Circuit Court
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and served from 1892 to 1905.
During his judgeship, he was also elected the first president of the Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago in 1901. He had played a key role in the formation of this organization, which championed Irish independence.
Cook County Circuit Court and
Cook County Superior Court judges sat in the
Cook County Criminal Court
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in one-month rotations. While sitting in the criminal court on such a rotation, Dunne had originally been assigned to preside over
the high-profile trial of
Patrick Eugene Prendergast
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for
the murder (assassination) of Chicago Mayor
Carter Harrison III
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On November 6, 1893, Dunne presided over a brief trial session in which the defense attorneys declared that they intended to
plead insanity for Prendergast, and asked for a
continuance
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until December 4 on the grounds that they lacked the time to prepare. Dunne granted this continuance. Since he rotated out of the criminal court by December, Judge
Theodore Brentano
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ultimately presided over the trial instead.
In late 1901, Dunne was one of three judges presiding over a criminal
conspiracy
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case against Illinois Democratic
political boss
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Robert E. Burke. Burke had served as a Chicago municipal oil inspector under Chicago mayor
Carter Harrison IV
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and was charged with a conspiracy related to $65,000 he accepted in compensation.
Burke had acted in disregard of an agreement he had signed when taking the position to return the charges he collected in return for a flat compensation.
Facing the prospect of charges, Burke returned $30,000 to the city in worries that not returning it might place himself in greater legal jeopardy.
[Morton 2019, p. 135–136] Conspiracy charges were brought against Burke by
Charles S. Deneen
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, the Republican
Cook County state's attorney
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.
Burke's defense attorney,
A. S. Trude, successfully used a defectively-constructed ordinance's judicial construction to persuade Dunne and the other two judges (
Theodore Brentano
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and
Marcus Kavanaugh) to rule that the entire $65,000 was actually the rightful property of Burke and that he had actually unwittingly deprived himself of $30,000 of which he was entitled to hold by returning it to the city.
Trude did this by arguing that Burke could not be criminally charged, because the city ordinance requiring the Chicago city oil inspector to give the city the fees he collected was, in fact, superseded by the state legislation that had established the position and its provision that allowed for the collection and the retention of all fees by the city oil inspector.
Another newsworthy trial that Dunne presided over was the 1895 trial of Alderman
Charles Martin for alleged acceptance of
bribes
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.
Mayoralty
Dunne resigned his judgeship to run for mayor in January 1905, winning election
on April 4, 1905, beating the Republican
John Maynard Harlan
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. Dunne won with majorities in 22 of 35 wards in the city. The final tally was 161,189 votes for Dunne and 138,671 given to Harlan. His election was greeted with jubilation by social reformers throughout the nation. He was formally inaugurated on April 10, 1905 in the council of chambers in Chicago. At the annual Jefferson Day banquet held shortly after his inauguration, he was praised by William Jennings Bryan and Mayor Tom L. Johnson as a dynamic new leader of the national movement for reform. The primary issue which Dunne had campaigned upon, and the primary issue he would focus on as mayor, was the city's
traction issue, for which he sternly favored having a solution which would result in immediate
municipal ownership
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of the city's streetcar lines.
As his primary assistant, Dunne chose
Clarence Darrow
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, who was given the title of "Special Traction Counsel to the Mayor".
[ After Darrow resigned from this role in November 1905, in 1906 Dunne appointed Walter L. Fisher as his replacement.][
As Mayor, Dunne was instrumental in reducing the price of gasoline in Chicago from $1.00 to 85 cents, and of water from 10 cents to 7 cents per thousand gallons.] He was also a strong proponent of municipal ownership of public utilities
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.
Dunne was defeated in his bid for reelection in 1907 by Republican Fred A. Busse
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Biography
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.
A 1994 survey of experts on Chicago politics saw Dunne ranked as the tenth-best mayor in the city's history up to that point.
Progressive reforms attempted under Mayor Dunne 1905-1907
The seven members of Board of Education appointed by Mayor Dunne, a Democrat, included Progressive Party's 1912 leaders like Jane Addams
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. Its reforms were reversed by the conservative Republican mayor Fred A. Busse
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in 1908. Nevertheless the reforms played a pivotal role in early 20th-century educational debates by challenging the prevailing "administrative progressive" approach that emphasized efficiency, centralized authority, and strong superintendents—an approach that paralleled the broader city manager movement in American governance The board served as a microcosm of progressive ideals, advocating for:.
* Labor Rights: Support for teacher unions and broader labor organizations.
* Decentralized Decision-Making: Emphasis on community input rather than top-down control.
* Transparency: Promotion of openness in teacher promotions and textbook contracts.
* Inclusion: Efforts to diversify community representation on boards and commissions.
* The Dunne Board stood out for its diverse composition, breaking from the tradition of male business leaders dominating Chicago’s educational governance. Women actively challenged male-dominated structures. Labor Representatives amplified working-class voices on school issues. Social Reformers included individuals committed to progressive causes. These reformers members formed overlapping networks, often rooted in "Social Gospel
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" Protestantism, and allied with labor and immigrant groups—most notably Margaret Haley and the Teachers' Federation—in opposition to the propertied elite.
The board prioritized practical reforms such as improved teacher salaries and greater teacher involvement in decision-making, reducing the superintendent’s power. Its support for the Teachers’ Federation was a dramatic new factor in Chicago affairs. The new Teacher Advisory Councils embraced participatory democracy by valuing teachers’ classroom experience in policy decisions. Although most of the Dunne Board’s reforms were quickly reversed, they left a lasting legacy. Concepts such as teachers’ councils are now widely accepted as mechanisms for professional input. The board’s commitment to open debate and public participation is reflected in today’s open meeting acts, demonstrating that their vision for a democratic educational system ultimately prevailed.
Post-mayoralty
After his mayoralty ended on April 15, 1907, Dunne returned to his legal practice.
Dunne was narrowly defeated in the 1911 Democratic mayoral primary by another former Chicago mayor, Carter H. Harrison IV, who went on to regain the mayoralty.
Governorship
Dunne formally announced his candidacy for Governor of Illinois on January 17, 1912. He won the Democratic Party primary election held on April 9 of that year. The main thrust of his campaign attack was on what he called "Jackpot Government". In the general election, Dunne defeated the incumbent governor, Governor Charles S. Deneen in the fall of 1912. Dunne and the Democrats benefited from the split in the ranks of the Republican Party which divided by supporters of the incumbent President William Howard Taft and the Progressives who supported the third party candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt.
He was inaugurated as Governor of Illinois on February 3, 1913. He moved his family to the Illinois Governor's Mansion in Springfield, Illinois
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. As governor, he met with many visitors and guests. Former U.S. President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was a visitor at the Illinois Governor's Mansion while Dunne was governor.
As governor Dunne championed numerous progressive reforms, including Women's Suffrage
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, prison reforms, major infrastructural improvements, the creation of the Public Utility Commission, the Efficiency and Economy Commission, the Legislative Reference Bureau, and he also expanded the state's responsibility for overseeing workman's compensation benefits and teachers' pensions.
In 1913, Governor Dunne signed into law a bill that gave women in the State of Illinois the right to vote for President of the United States. This made Illinois the first state east of the Mississippi to give women the right to vote for the U.S. Presidency. This was six years before the passage of the 19th Amendment.
In November 1915, Dunne designated state Senator Stephen D. Canady of Hillsboro to appear as his representative on the train car along with the Liberty Bell
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as it passed through southern Illinois on its nationwide tour returning to Pennsylvania
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from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco
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. After that trip, the Liberty Bell returned to Pennsylvania and will not be moved again.
Post-gubernatorial career
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to lobby President Woodrow Wilson
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to consider Irish independence to be a cause in keeping with the principle of self-determination
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that Wilson had advocated for in his "Fourteen Points
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".
After finishing his term as governor, Dunne remained politically active. In 1921, he helped found an organization called the "National Unity Council" to combat the Ku Klux Klan
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.["Organizing to Fight The Ku Klux Klan"](_blank)
''The New York Times'', September 21, 1921. Accessed August 13, 2022.
In 1919, Dunne was appointed by the Irish Race Convention to serve on the American Commission on Irish Independence. As part of this commission, Dunne traveled to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919
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in order to voice Irish-American desires for an independent Irish nation. During his stay in Europe, he also visited Ireland itself. He spent ten days touring the island and meeting with politicians including members of the First Dáil
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on May 9, 1919.
Dunne returned once again to practicing law after leaving office in 1917. His legal practice was damaged by the ravages of the Great Depression
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, but he supplemented this work with a position as counsel to the Cook County Board of Election Commissioners.[Morton, Richard Allen. ''Justice and Humanity: Edward F. Dunne, Illinois Progressive.'' p. 127. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.]
After the death of his wife on May 25, 1928, Dunne began contemplating his memoirs. He was convinced by the Lewis Publishing Co. to write a history of Illinois. Over a five-year period he worked on this project with close help from William L. Sullivan, who had been his private secretary when he was governor. In 1933, he published a five (5) volume set titled: ''Illinois, the Heart of the Nation''.[''Justice and Humanity: Edward F. Dunne, Illinois Progressive'' pp. 125-26. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.]
President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Dunne to be a United States Commissioner for the Century of Progress
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World's Fair of Chicago of 1933-34. At the time he was 80 years old. He took great joy in this position and joked that he had served as mayor, governor and as a federal commissioner (and, thus, had served at all levels of government).
Death
In his later years, Dunne lived with his oldest daughter, Eileen and her family. He died in Chicago on May 24, 1937, aged 83. He was surrounded by three of his nine children when he died.[ He is buried alongside his wife Elizabeth at Calvary Cemetery in Evanston. Dunne’s family today reside in Chicago, Connecticut, and New Jersey.
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See also
*Chicago Traction Wars
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References
Further reading
* Becker, Richard D. "Edward Dunne, Reform Mayor of Chicago, 1905-07" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1971).
* Buenker, John D. "Edward F. Dunne: The Limits of Municipal Reform" in Green, Paul M. and Holli, Melvin, (eds.} ''The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition'' (Southern Illinois University Press, 1987).
* Buenker, John D. "Edward F. Dunne: The Urban New Stock Democrat as Progressive," ''Mid-America'' . Vol. 50, No. 1, January 1968, pp. 3-21.
* Morton, Richard Allen. ''Justice and Humanity: Edward F. Dunne, Illinois Progressive.'' Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.
** Morton, Richard Allen. "Justice and Humanity: The Politics of Edward F. Dunne." (Ph.D. dissertation, U of Illinois-Urbana; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1988. 8823207).
* Schiltz, Mary. "The Dunne School Board: Reform in Chicago, 1905-1908" (PhD dissertation; Loyola University Chicago, 1993
online
* Sullivan, William Larkin
''Dunne: Judge, Mayor, Governor''
Chicago: Windermere Press, 1916
Primary sources
''Chicago and Municipal Ownership''
by Edward F. Dunne, ''National Magazine'', June 1905
External links
Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne Collection, 1873-1937
Illinois History and Lincoln Collections, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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