1. Jennifer Jill Dunn was an American politician and engineer who served six terms as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2005, representing.
14 Facts About Jennifer Dunn
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Jennifer Dunn attended the University of Washington, where she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority, before earning a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University.
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Jennifer Dunn was a distant cousin of congressman Slade Gorton.
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Jennifer 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.
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Jennifer Dunn was Washington's only Republican representative until the Republican Revolution of 1994 when Republicans swept all but two of Washington's nine House seats.
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Jennifer Dunn served as vice-chair of the Select Committee on Homeland Security and served on the House Ways and Means Committee and the Joint Economic Committee.
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On October 10,2002, Jennifer Dunn voted in favor of authorizing the War in Iraq.
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Jennifer Dunn announced in 2004 she would retire from Congress, choosing not to run for re-election.
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Jennifer Dunn's seat was eventually filled by King County Sheriff Dave Reichert.
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Jennifer Dunn co-chaired the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation with former Representative Calvin Dooley.
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Jennifer Dunn served as co-chair of the campaign organization "Women for Mitt" for presidential candidate Mitt Romney at the time of her death in 2007.
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Jennifer Dunn was succeeded in the Romney organization by US Representative Kay Granger of Fort Worth, Texas.
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Jennifer Dunn has two children, including Reagan Jennifer Dunn, an attorney and politician who has served as a member of the King County Council since 2005.
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Jennifer Dunn collapsed and died of a pulmonary embolism in 2007, in her Alexandria, Virginia, apartment.