English: Mark Hill Dunnell was a Representative from
Minnesota; born in
Buxton,
York County,
Maine, July 2,
1823; completed preparatory studies, and was graduated from Waterville College (now
Colby College),
Waterville, in
1849; for five years was principal of
Norway and Hebron Academies; member of the
Maine House of Representatives in
1854; served in the
Maine Senate in
1855; State superintendent of common schools in 1855 and 1857-1859; delegate to the
Republican National Convention in
1856; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in
Portland, in
1860; entered the
Union Army as colonel of the
Fifth Regiment, May 6,
1861; mustered out August 31, 1861; United States consul at
Vera Cruz, in 1861 and 1862; moved to Minnesota and settled in
Winona in
1865, and in
1867, in
Owatonna; member of the Minnesota house of representatives in 1867; State superintendent of public instruction from April 2, 1867, to August
1870, when he resigned; elected as a
Republican to the Forty-second and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1871 – March 3,
1883); unsuccessful candidate for Speaker of the Forty-seventh Congress; was not a candidate for renomination in 1882; unsuccessful candidate for election to the
United States Senate in
1883; elected to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4,
1889 – March 3,
1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; delegate to the Republican National Convention in
1892; one of the founders and a member of the board of trustees of Pillsbury Military Academy (now
Pillsbury Baptist Bible College); died in Owatonna,
Steele County, August 9,
1904; interment in
Forest Hill Cemetery.