George R. Lunn, M.C

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Hon. Geo. R. Lunn, M. C.


Congressman George R. Lunn

A Timely Subject—Democracy on Trial
NO MORE timely subject has been announced for discussion in the Lyceum than that announced as the title of the lecture to be given by Hon. George R. Lunn, Member of Congress from the Thirtieth New York District, embracing the counties of Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery and Schenectady.  And had the Affiliated Lyceum Bureaus searched the halls of Congress no speaker could have been found who can bring to the discussion of that subject a more comprehensive knowledge of all that democracy means, and a finer ability to interpret the needs of this critical hour to his hearers.

In offering Hon. George R. Lunn in a lecture on the subject, Democracy on Trial, we believe we are contributing to the cause of American solidarity in an hour when clear thinking and plain speaking is essential to the mobilization of American thought for victory—not only in the war, but after it.

—THE MANAGEMENT



A Brief Biography
GEORGE RICHARD LUNN, Democrat, of Schenectady, N. Y., was born in Lenox, Iowa, June 23, 1873; graduated from Bellevue College, Bellevue, Nebr., 1897; received master of arts degree from same institution 1900; postgraduate work in Princeton College, New York and Columbia Universities; received bachelor of divinity degree New York University 1901; graduated from Union Theological Seminary, New York City, same year; received doctor of divinity degree Union College, Schenectady, 1905; married to Mabel Healy, daughter of Frank Healy, of Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1901, and has five children; in 1901 became associate pastor of Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn; left Brooklyn in 1904 to become pastor of the First Dutch Reformed Church of Schenectady, where he served for six years; then organized an Independent People's Church, and later united with the First Congregational Church, of which he is now pastor; served as mayor of Schenectady, first term 1912–13, second term 1916–17; elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress on an independent ticket, indorsed by Progressive and Democratic Parties.

(From The Congressional Record)





A Militant American

A Magnetic Personality and Brilliant Speaker

SCHENECTADY GAZETTE.
SCHENECTADY, N. Y.
Feb. 13, 1918.

Manager,
Affiliated Lyceum Bureaus,
Cleveland, Ohio.

Dear Sir:—

It has come to my attention that Rev. George R. Lunn, D.D., representative from this, the Thirtieth Congressional district, and twice Mayor of this oity, is to lecture under the management of your Bureaus.

As a newspaper man intimate with Dr. Lunn's brilliant career in public life, I am taking the liberty to express my view that you have in him one of the most magnetic personalities and convincing speakers now in the public view.  He guages his audiences instantly, thinks with the rapidity of white lightning, and so phrases his thoughts that his platform talks are taken by his auditors as a personal matter between them, individually, and him.

He is a splendid fighter and a wonderful friend maker.  His Congressional district, from the Adirondacks to the Albany county line, knows him more intimately and rates him more highly than any other man who ever told it when and how it was wrong, and presented it with a constructive idea of what was right.  And every man, woman and child in every city, town and hamlet in it will quit everything else when the opportunity comes to hear Dr. Lunn talk.

Yours very truly,
William B. Osborne
The Schenectady Gazette.




Congressman Lunn is one of the finest orators in the State.—
Herkimer, N. Y., Citizen.






Congressman George R. Lunn

As His Friends See Him

Schenectady Gazette:
—Audience of 1200 at Van Curler hears Congressman Lunn.  For nearly two hours the big crowd was held spellbound by Dr. Lunn.  Although many were obliged to stand, not a person left the theatre during the discourse.


Gloversville Herald:
—Lunn arouses great audience to high pitch of patriotism.  Glove Theatre, crowded to its doors yesterday afternoon by citizens of Gloversville who greeted their Representative in Congress with ovation and in turn listened to splendid inspired talk by gifted orator.  It was the oratory of the old school, surpassing in its brilliancy many of the epochal addresses that make history in Washington, which riveted the attention of over 1500 people, who crowded every inch of space in the Glove Theatre.


New York Tribune:
—Perhaps the most stirring speech in the debate in either House was made by Schenectady's former Socialist Mayor, Geo. R. Lunn, who was assigned to the Military Affairs Committee.


Fort Plain Standard:
—A Thrilling Address.
Congressman Lunn talks to immense audience in Schenectady.



Schenectady Gazette:
—And then came the introduction of Mayor Lunn by Dr. Richmond and there followed a minute or two of tremendously enthusiastic greeting on the part of the audience.


Utica Press:
—One of the interesting and spectacular men in public life is former Mayor Lunn of Schenectady, now a Representative in Congress.


Fulton County Democrat:
—The splendid address of Hon. Geo. R. Lunn, representative from this district, delivered in Gloversville last Sunday, was one of the most eloquent and forceful utterances ever delivered upon a public rostrum in this State, and we hope that its publication may be as wide as the principles he proclaimed are far-reaching and benificent.


Leader-Republican, Johnstown, N. Y.:
—Three Big Celebrations Provide Patriotic Inspiration for Hundreds—Hon. George R. Lunn Brings War Home in Stirring Addresses at Each Event.
The city last night (Feb. 22, 1918) was glaring under a spotlight of patriotism, three big patriotic celebrations being staged.  Congressman George R. Lunn added a large measure of lustre to each of the three occasions.  “America” was the keynote of his talks, and they rang with the characteristic Lunn oratory when they reached the high notes of appeal to American sentiment, for which the brilliant congressman is noted.  “His address was a virile challenge to Prussianism and an emotional appeal in the choicest oratory to the American sense of nationality.  He carried the day.”




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Chicago


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Cleveland


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