Weaver W. Dunnan, Lawyer, 87, Washington Post
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Weaver W. Dunnan Lawyer
Weaver W. Dunnan, 87, a corporate tax lawyer who became managing partner of
the prominent Washington firm Covington & Burling, died June 29 [2010] at
the Grand Oaks assisted living facility in the District. He had dementia.
Mr. Dunnan joined Covington & Burling in 1951 and worked in its tax
department. His clients included IBM and United Technologies. He became a
partner in 1960 and served on the firm's management committee from 1974 to
1978. He retired in the mid-1990s.
Weaver White Dunnan was born in Paxton, Ill. He left his studies at Harvard
University to serve in the Army during World War II. After the war, he
reentered Harvard and received a bachelor's degree in history. He graduated
from Harvard Law School in 1949 and was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
After law school, he clerked for a federal judge and later for Supreme Court
Justice Felix Frankfurter.
For many years, Mr. Dunnan taught law classes at George Washington
University. He also served on the boards of Beauvoir, the National Cathedral
Elementary School and St. Albans School. He was a member of the Chevy Chase
Country Club.
Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Diana Baldwin Dunnan; five children,
Bruce Baldwin Dunnan of Palm Beach, Fla., Douglas Dunnan of Rye, N.Y.,
Stuart Dunnan of St. James, Md., Winifred Faust of Wellesley, Mass., and
John McMillan Dunnan of Charleston, S.C.; and 12 grandchildren.
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Timothy R. Smith