Robert N. Dunn

Robert Newton Dunn (March 10, 1858 – January 17, 1925) was Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court from 1921 to 1925, serving as chief justice from January 5, 1924, until his death in 1925. Biography Robert N. Dunn was born on March 10, 1858 in Warsaw, Missouri as the son of John H. Dunn and Elizabeth Catherine Lay. Following the high school, he worked as a Printer in Warrensburg, Missouri and entered the local State Normal School (later known as Warrensburg Teachers College - predecessor of nowadays University of Central Missouri). Dunn graduated from the Advanced course in 1880 and moved to Idaho with his two brothers, John and Alfred. He settled in Wallace, Idaho and worked as a Postmaster, while helping his brothers to establish a local newspaper, the "Wallace Free Press". He became an acquaintance of Judge Weldon B. Heyburn who partnered with Dunn brothers during the establishment of the "Wallace Free Press" and was appointed by Heyburn to the Idaho State Committee as a representative for Shoshone County in August 1898. Dunn also began practicing the law and was selected for a practice at the Interior Department in Washington, D.C. in January 1901.