Tom Bunn | |
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Member of the Oregon House of Representatives | |
In office July 1992 – January 1993 |
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Preceded by | Stan Bunn |
Succeeded by | Marilyn Dell |
Constituency | District 29 |
Yamhill County Commissioner | |
In office 1995–2003 |
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Constituency | Yamhill County, Oregon |
Mayor of Amity, Oregon | |
In office 1987–1988 |
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Personal details | |
Born | Circa 1959 |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Lona |
Relations |
Jim Bunn Stan Bunn |
Children | 6 |
Residence | Dayton, Oregon |
Occupation | Law enforcement |
Thomas E. Bunn (born c. 1959) is a former law enforcement officer and politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. A Republican, he served part of a term in the Oregon House of Representatives while two brothers served in the Oregon State Senate. A former sheriff’s deputy in Yamhill County, he later served two terms as a county commissioner. He also was mayor of Amity and a member of their city council.
Thomas Bunn was born about 1959 in Yamhill County, Oregon, to Ben and Viola (Fulgham) Bunn. Along with his twin Tim, he was the youngest of eleven children in the family with five brothers and five sisters. He grew up on the family farm near Dayton along the Yamhill River. As a child he and his brothers usually shunned outsiders and played amongst themselves. Bunn came from a political family with his grandfather once serving as mayor of Lafayette, Oregon, his father was on the same city’s school board, brother Jim Bunn served in Congress and the state legislature, and another brother Stan Bunn served in the legislature as well.
Tom graduated from Dayton High School and went on to college. He attended Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho, where he was in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. Bunn graduated with a bachelor of arts degree with a focus in business from the school. His ROTC training led to a commission in the National Guard that he had joined as a private, and later let to advancement as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Oregon Army National Guard. He also attended, but did not graduate from, Northwestern California University School of Law, a correspondence law school.