The Alaska daily empire., 1914-10-16
COMMITTEE ISSUES
 BUNNELL BIOGRAPHY

The Democratic Campaign commlt' toe for the First Division has issued a circular containing the Democratic platforms adopted at the Territorial Convention held in Skagway August 8, 4, and 3, and by the Divisional Con vention held in Juneau, September ( 8, and 9, and also a biographical sketch of Charles E. Bunnell, the Democratic candidate for Delegate to Congress. The sketch of Mir. Bunnell follows:
 Charles k. Bunnell was born inI Dimmock, Susquehenna county, Pa, January 12. 1878. Spending his early years on a farm, he was graduated att Montrose County High School, in his native county, at the age of 16 years. Two years later he was graduated from Keystone Academy and martriculated at Bucknell University Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He was graduated from that university in 1900 with the decree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1902, having completed an assignment of work, the same institution conferred the degree of Master of Arts upon him.
 Mir. BunnelPs Alaska experience be- gan immediately after graduating from Bucnell He came North as teach CT under the Bureau of Education, in 1900, and taught school on Wood Is- land one year and at Kodiak two years. He was elected principal of the Val dez Public Schools in 1903, and grad ed the school at that place and taught as it's principal for four years.
 He was admitted to the bar as Q lawyer in 1908. and has resided at Valdez, practicing his profession in the courts of the Territory, since that time.
 He received the unanimous nomina- tion of the Territorial Convention of the Democratic party as its candidate for Delegate to Congress at Skagway, August 5, 1914.
 Mr. Bunnell was married to Miss Mary Anna Kline, of Winfield, Penn syIvania, classmate at Bucknell Uni versity, in 1901. and they have one child, a daughter.
 Though but S6 years of age, Mir. Bun nell has made a success of life. He has done this notwithstanding that he was a poor boy, because, in addition to superior natural abilities, he pos sesses prodiglous industry and an n' teSrity that inspires confidence. He, practically unaided, worked his way through the Academy and the Univer- sity. In spite of the circumstance, however, that he had to devote great deal of his time while at the Univer- sity to labor in order to earn his liy- ing, he was prominent in college ath- letics, and was one of the honor men of his class.
 Mir. Bunnell is an Alaskan in all the term applies. He has resided contin- uously in the Territory for 14 years. His family, home and all of his prop erty interests are here. While never holding public office, except that of member of the school board of Val dez he has always taken Q wide-awaRe interest in public affairs. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Valdez Commercial Club, mem- Der of the Arctic Brotherhood and a life member of Igloo No. z, Pioneers of Alaska. He was a member of the Dem ocratic Territorial committee in 1912 14
 Mir. Bunnen did not seek the nom- ination for Delegate to Congress. He was member of the committee on Platform of the Democratic Terrltor- ial convention, and permanent chair man of that organization. However, the convention had not been in ses- sion 24 hours until the delegates had begun talking among themselves of his excellent qualifications for party leadership, and his special availability as a Delegate to Congress. R. F. Roth, of Fairbanks, (since appointed United States District Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Divisionl spoke the exact truth when, in placing Mir. Bunnell's name before the convention, he said that he is the first choice candidate of every single delegate in this con yention." The unanimous nomination followed.
 Mir. Bunnell is a Democrat; an en- thusiastic admirer of President Wood row Wilson, staunch supporter of the Administration policies, and heart fly in accord with the platform of the Democratic party of Alaska.