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Who is Jennifer Dunn?
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Who was the former Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn? And how did she die?
| | Jennifer Blackburn Dunn (July 29, 1941 - September 5, 2007), American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2005, representing Washington's 8th congressional district. |
| | Born in Seattle, Washington, Dunn grew up in the nearby city of Bellevue. |
| | She attended the University of Washington where she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta and Stanford University, earning business degrees. |
| | After graduation, she worked as a systems engineer. |
| | Dunn was chair of the Washington State Republican Party from 1981 to 1992 and twice a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (1984 and 1990). |
| | Elected to the House in 1992, she was Washington's only Republican in the House of Representatives until the Republican Revolution of 1994. |
| | In 1998 she became the first woman ever to run for the position of House Majority Leader. |
| | In 2000, she served on the presidential election exploratory committee for then-Texas Governor George W. Bush. |
| | Dunn served as Vice-Chairwoman of the Select Committee on Homeland Security and served on the House Ways and Means Committee and the Joint Economic Committee. |
| | Dunn announced in 2004 she would retire from Congress, choosing not to run for re-election. |
| | Dunn collapsed and died of a pulmonary embolism in 2007, in her Alexandria, Virginia apartment. |
| | Her family says former Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn has died. |
| | Her family says she collapsed at her apartment in Alexandria, Virginia, and died from a blood clot in the lungs. |
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