James W. Dunbar

Who was James W. Dunbar?

James Whitson Dunbar was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.

Born in New Albany, Indiana, Dunbar attended the public schools and was graduated from New Albany High School in 1878. He engaged in mercantile pursuits. Manager of public utilities in New Albany and Jeffersonville. Secretary-treasurer of the Western Gas Association 1894–1906. Secretary of the American Gas Institute 1906–1909. He served as president of the Indiana Gas Association 1908-1910 and secretary 1914–1919.

Dunbar was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1922.

Dunbar was elected to the Seventy-first Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress. He resumed his former business pursuits. He died in New Albany, Indiana, May 19, 1943. He was interred in Fairview Cemetery.