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ARTHUR
B. DUNNE
Arthur
B. Dunne, attorney, was born in San Francisco, California on April 21, 1899;
the son of Peter F. and Anne C. (Haehnlen) Dunne.
He obtained his preliminary
schooling in San Francisco, then entered the University of California in 1917,
from which he graduated in 1920 with the degree of A.B. His legal education was
obtained at Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1923 with the LL.B.
degree and was admitted to the California State Bar in the same year. While at
Harvard he received the Sears Prize in 1921; served on the editorial board of
the Harvard Law Review, 1921-23, and was case editor, 1922-23.
During World War I he served in the
Naval Reserve Officers Training School, 1918.
In 1923 Mr. Dunne began the practice
of law in San Francisco, California, in association with the firm of Morrison,
Dunne & Brobeck, which later became the firm of
Dunne, Brobeck, Pheleger
& Harrison. On January 1, 1926, he became a partner with his father in the
firm of Dunne, Dunne & Cook, which continued until his father’s death in
1933. The firm has continued as Dunne & Dunne, but with Arthur B. the only
survivor. Mr. Dunne has been a lecturer at the San Francisco Law School since
1923.
Member of the Pacific-Union Club,
Burlingame Country Club, Cyprus Point Club; San Francisco Bar Association
(president 1942), State Bar of California (Board of Governors 1944-47, vice
president 1946-47), American Bar Association, and the American Judicature
Society.
Offices: 333 Montgomery Street, San Francisco,
California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 221, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies