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Show AMERICAN U380N (Copy for This Department Supplied by the American Legion News Service.) GEORGIA PROUD OF COMMANDER DUNLAP In Gainesville, Ga., they have a lawyer named Edgar B. Dunlap. The folks there think a lot of Ed and maybe may-be that was why the American Legion, Department of Georgia, elected liim state commander. Not long ago Ed was seen squeezing the MacNIder trophy awarded annually annual-ly to the department making the best membership showing. Georgia had won the cup for a steady, persistent Increase in members. Commander Dunlap was born in Gainesville, April 19, 1892. He grew up into a six-foot sturdy man who at college could outwalk most men of his age. He tells stories sometimes of his many hikes. Once he walked 14 miles at night and appeared in Atlanta for the football game between the University Uni-versity of Georgia eleven and a visiting visit-ing college team. After taking his degree In 1913 Ed decided he wanted to be a lawyer. So he continued his studies and was admitted ad-mitted to the bar in 1915. During the two years he was studying torts and evidence he was professor of Latin in the Gainesville high school and tutor In public speaking at the University of Georgia. Then he went back to Gainesville to practice law. This he continued n-tll n-tll the United States entered the Edgar B. Dunlap. World war. Meantime he had served as civilian aide to the secretary of war for the state of Georgia and was for a time United States commissioner for the northern district of Georgia. On May 11, 1917, a little more than a month after the United States declared de-clared war on Germany, he entered the First Officers' Training camp at Fort Macpherson and the following August he was commissioned a captain. cap-tain. Transferred to Camp Gordon he drilled colored troops until May, 1918, when he sailed overseas. He saw active ac-tive fighting in the Toul sector, Mar-bache Mar-bache sector, St. Mihiel offensive and in the bloody Argonne. He was discharged dis-charged on June 4, 1919, and returned re-turned to Gainesville to resume his practice. But Ed, being a man with vision, saw the possibilities of service in the American Legion and not long after he had shed his uniform he organized the Paul E. Bolding post at Gainesville Gaines-ville and was elected its first commander. comman-der. Since then he has been actively connected con-nected with the Legion. He was successively suc-cessively delegate to the first national convention in Minneapolis in 1919 and served on the Legion's constitutional committee. In 1919, 1920 and in 1922 he served his department as executive committeeman and in 1923 was elected state commander. National headquarters of the Legion recognized his undoubted ability and he was appointed on the national finance committee. When the adjusted compensation battle was at its height he also served as a member of the augmented legislative committee. Commander Dunlap is married and has two children, Minnie, born in 1910 and James, born in 1919. |