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Bunn, Henry Gaston

soldier, state senator, jurist, was born June 12, 1838, in Nash county, N. C. He served in the confederate army throughout the war; was third lieutenant, adjutant, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of the fourth Arkansas infantry in the army of the Tennessee. In 1873-74 he served as state senator; and was a member of the constitutional convention of 1874. He was special judge of the circuit and supreme court, and since 1893 has been chief justice of the supreme court of Arkansas, his term expiring in October, 1904.

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