Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne |Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne| |24th
Governor of Illinois| |Preceded by||Charles S. Deneen|
|Succeeded by||Frank O. Lowden| |38th Mayor of the City of
Chicago| |Preceded by||Carter Harrison, Jr.| |Succeeded by||Fred
A. Busse| October 12, 1853| |Died||May 24, 1937
|Spouse(s)||Elizabeth J. Kelly (d.1928)| Edward Fitzsimmons
Dunne (October 12, 1853 – May 24, 1937) was an American
politician who was the 24th Governor of Illinois from 1913 to
1917 and previously served as the 38th mayor of Chicago from
April 5, 1905 to 1907. Early years  Born in 1853, in Watertown,
Connecticut, he was the son of an ardent Irish nationalist,
Patrick William (P. W.) Dunne (1832–1921), who emigrated to
America in 1849 after the failed Young Ireland revolt. His
mother, Delia Mary (Mary) Lawlor, was the daughter of a
prosperous Irish contractor, and participant in the Irish
Rebellion of 1798, who helped construct the docks of Galway. The
family moved to Peoria, Illinois while Dunne was still an
infant, and he was e