13 Facts About Gordon Dunn

Godron Dunn was born April 16,1912, to William F Dunn and Olive C Glover in Portland, Oregon.

Dunn's father, William F Dunn once served as the deputy city clerk for Fresno.

Shortly after Dunn was born, the family moved home to Fresno, where the Dunn family had lived since the 1880s.

Gordon Dunn graduated from Fresno High School and attended Stanford University.

Gordon Dunn participated in the discus competition for the United States Olympic Team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.

Gordon Dunn returned to Menlo Park, where he divorced is first wife, Marjorie Kitselman, in 1938.

Gordon Dunn married Naomi McCool shortly after the divorce and moved back to his birthplace of Portland where he took a job working as a merchandizing salesman for Associated Oil.

In 1942, Gordon Dunn joined the US Navy and became a Lieutenant Commander in Office of Naval Intelligence for the duration of the war.

Gordon Dunn ran for mayor in April 1949 under a platform of cleaning up the city.

Gordon Dunn pushed for conversion of the Downtown Fresno streets to one-way traffic to lessen traffic gridlock, the upgrade of paving of the city streets, and the removal of street parking in favor of surface parking.

Gordon Dunn left Fresno and moved to San Francisco, California where he resided until death.

In 1964, Gordon Dunn was inducted into the Fresno County Athletic Hall of Fame.

On July 26,1964, Gordon Dunn died of a heart attack at the age of 52, the same cause of death that took his grandfather 51 years earlier.