Charles T. Dunwell

Charles Tappan Dunwell (February 13, 1852 - June 12, 1908) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in Newark, New York, Dunwell moved with his parents to Lyons, New York, in 1854. He attended the Lyons Union School. He entered Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in the class of 1873, where he was a member of The Kappa Alpha Society. At the close of his junior year entered Columbia College Law School in the city of New York, and was graduated in 1874. He was admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in New York City. He served as general agent for the New York Life Insurance Co., in 1889. He was an unsuccessful candidate for comptroller of the city of Brooklyn in 1890. He served as member of the New York Republican State committee in 1891 and 1892.

Dunwell was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1903, until his death in Brooklyn, New York, June 12, 1908. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery.

References

• Charles T. Dunwell at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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Date of birth	February 13, 1852
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