Dunnell, Mark Hill
soldier, educator, state senator, congressman, was born July 2, 1823, in Buxton, Maine. In 1854 he was elected to the state legislature, and in 1855 to the state senate. During the years 1855-59 he was state superintendent of common schools, and in 1856 was a delegate to the national convention at Philadelphia. In 1861 he entered the union army as colonel of infantry. In 1862 he was United States consul at Vera Cruz, Mexico. In 1865 he went to Minnesota; was a member of the legislature of that state in 1867; was state superintendent of public instruction from 1867 to 1870; and was elected to the forty-second, forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, fortysixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.