Tom Bunn

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.

Early life

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.