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	Charles Curtis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was a Representative and a Senator from Kansas as well as the 31st Vice President of the United States.
		Curtis was born in Topeka, Kansas, attended Topeka High School and was admitted to the bar in 1881.
		Curtis resigned from the Senate on March 3, 1929 to assume the office of Vice President, following the landslide 58% - 41% victory achieved as running mate to Republican candidate Herbert Hoover in 1928.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Curtis (622 words)

	White Dove's Native American Indian Site Curtis, Charles
		Born in North Topeka, Kansas on January 25, 1860, Charles Curtis is the only person of documentable Indian blood quantum to be elected to the second-highest office of the land.
		Utilizing his legal expertise, Curtis turned those forty-acre inheritance into a profitable enterprise, and in later years proudly cited his business acumen as proof that the allotment of Indian reservations was a powerful instrument in the assimilation of Indian people.
		Curtis was returned to the Senate by popular vote in 1914, where he served continuously until he became Hubert Hoover's vice president in 1929.
	users.multipro.com /whitedove/encyclopedia/curtis-charles-2860-1936.html (1104 words)

	Charles Curtis
		Charles Curtis was born in Topeka on January 25, 1860.
		Curtis, himself part Kansa Indian, was the author of a bill which in 1898 made changes in the Indian Territory as well as several other pieces of legislation that affected the tribes.
		Although an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912, Curtis regained a seat in the U.S. Senate in the election of 1914.
	www.kshs.org /portraits/curtis_charles.htm (374 words)

	CURTIS, Charles F. 1846-1915
		Curtis as it does, that he took a great deal of pleasure in watching this club house and park development to the point where it will soon be a place of use and enjoyment, especially for the employees of Curtis Brothers & Co. Mr.
		Curtis was married in October, 1873, to Nancy Hosford, who was born in Illinois, the daughter of A.P. Hosford, a pioneer resident of this city.
		Curtis was a member of the Masonic fraternity, having taken the degrees of both the York and Scottish Rite, and was a 33rd degree member of the order.
	iagenweb.org /boards/clinton/obituaries/index.cgi?review=12926 (964 words)

	Division for Public Education: National American Indian Heritage Month: Charles Curtis
		Curtis took her advice and left the tribe: "the next morning as the wagons pulled out for the south, bound for Indian Territory, I mounted my pony and with my belongings in a flour sack, returned to Topeka and school," Curtis said later.
		Curtis resigned from the House in 1907 to fill a vacancy in the Senate, and served as a Senator until 1913.
		In 2002, a rededication ceremony was held at the Curtis gravesite in Topeka Cemetery.
	www.abanet.org /publiced/rbcurtis.html (898 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President (1929-1933)
		Curtis' "cross-country run" made him a celebrity in North Topeka, but the incident also convinced his paternal grandparents, William and Permelia Curtis, that their grandson should be raised in the more "civilized" atmosphere of Topeka rather than return to the reservation.
		Curtis had learned to ride Indian ponies bareback and won a reputation as a "good and fearless rider." Back in North Topeka, his grandfather William Curtis had built a race track, and in 1869 Charles Curtis rode in his first race.
		Curtis then returned to the Kansas delegation and told them frankly, as William Allen White recalled, "that it had been decided (the phrase was his) to give Harding a play." The hot and tired delegates were glad to take orders and break the deadlock.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_Charles_Curtis.htm (5557 words)

	Charles Curtis Home, Topeka, Kansas
		Curtis was one of the first supporters of women's suffrage, and was influential in passing Native American and farm legislation.
		Curtis was born in North Topeka on January 25, 1860.
		In 1903 Curtis began representing Kansas in national offices--serving in the U.S. House of Representatives until 1908 and in the Senate 1909-1913 and 1915-1929.
	www.washburn.edu /cas/art/cyoho/archive/AroundTopeka/CCurtis (604 words)

	Charles Curtis and the Kaw Reservation, by Berlin B. Chapman, Kansas Historical Quarterly, November, 1947
		Curtis had been in congress in the first decade of the century when the Kaw and Osage reservations in Oklahoma territory were dissolved and had taken an active part in the dissolutions.
		Curtis read the manuscript, made notes useful in supplementing it, and in discussion he seemed especially interested in minors, their place and the protection given them in the dissolution of the Kaw reservation.
		Curtis that in the early 1890's the Kaws were reluctant to make improvements on lands because at their death the tribal council could give the fruits of their labor to persons other than the heirs.
	www.kancoll.org /khq/1947/47_4_chapman.htm (5965 words)

	The Official Charles Curtis House Website @ charlescurtishousemuseum.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Topeka native, Charles Curtis, was a great-grandson of a Kanza Indian Chief.
		Curtis was born January 25, 1860 to Captain and Mrs.
		When Charles Curtis was selected by President Herbert Hoover to serve as his Vice President, Curtis became the first Native American to hold the office, the first Vice President to come from west of the Mississippi, and the first Vice President from the state of Kansas.
	www.charlescurtishousemuseum.com (335 words)

	NTI: Board of Directors: Charles B. Curtis
		Charles B. Curtis is the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
		Curtis was a partner in Hogan and Hartson, a Washington based law firm with domestic and international offices.
		Curtis served as Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 1977 to 1981 and has held positions on the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Treasury Department, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
	www.nti.org /b_aboutnti/b1c.html (248 words)

	The Kansa - Relations with Other Tribes
		One of the residents of the Kaw reservation at the time of the Cheyenne Raid was eight-year- old Charles Curtis, who had been living with his maternal grandmother on the Council Grove reservation since 1866.
		Charles Curtis never returned to live with the Kaws, but went to establish a very successful political career.
		Curtis was the first person born west of the Mississippi River to be elected vice-president and the only person of Indian descent to hold the nation’s second highest office.
	www.kshs.org /places/kawmission/kansacurtis.htm (134 words)

	Charles G. Dawes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was the 30th Vice President of the United States.
		Charles Dawes was also a self-taught pianist and composer.
		His 1912 composition "Melody in A Major" became a pop song ("It's All In The Game") in 1951 when Carl Sigman added lyrics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_G._Dawes (724 words)

	Vice President Charles Curtis
		Charles Curtis was born on Indian land in Kansas and grew up on an Indian Reservation.
		Curtis was able to ride a horse bareback by the time he was 3 years old.
		Curtis was the first Vice President to take his oath of office with his hand on a Bible.
	www.christers.net /veeps/charles-curtis.html (1165 words)

	Charles Curtis Timeline
		1895 - Charles Curtis was a delegate to the House of Representatives.
		Charles Curtis purchased house at 1101 Topeka Blvd. in Topeka and lived there whenever he was in Topeka (when Congress was not in session), the House has been restored and does accept visitors for tours with prior notice.
		Charles Curtis was nominated for Vice President on Hoover ticket, was defeated for re-election.
	www.vpcharlescurtis.net /ksstudies/kstimeline2.html (3459 words)

	Works for Cello and Piano: Charles Curtis and Michael J. Schumacher
		Upon graduating from Juilliard, Curtis was appointed to the faculty of Princeton University, where for three years he taught cello and chamber music, advised graduate composition students on matters of string performance and technique, and performed virtually all of the new music for strings by faculty and student composers.
		Curtis is one of the few instrumentalists to have perfected Young's highly complex just intonation tunings, and is one of only a handful of musicians to have appeared in duo formations with Young, performing works by early minimalists Richard Maxfield and Terry Jennings.
		Curtis is recipient of the Piatigorsky Prize of the New York Cello Society, and a laureate of the Naumburg, Geneva and Cassado International competitions.
	www.diapasongallery.org /archive/01_06_24.html (7524 words)

	Charles Curtis - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
		Curtis turned his attention to politics, another rung in the ladder of his ambition, and in the fall was elected attorney for Shawnee county, which office he filled with ability four years.
		As prosecuting attorney he surprised everybody by his thorough knowledge of law and his efficient performance of the duties which the position he held imposed upon him, as it was during his administration that the prohibition law was first enforced.
		Curtis as his successor, and this action was taken.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/genweb/archives/1912/c3/curtis_charles.html (604 words)

	The Orphans - A Curtis & Orr Family Tragedy
		Curtis, aged four years nine months." Of interest, in 1826 he ran for the office of Representative from Cape Girardeau; receiving a whopping six (6) votes out of about 2500 total.
		Family lore hands down that Harvey R. Curtis was killed by a member of the crew, his body being thrown overboard into the Mississippi River at a spot where the Eades Bridge in St. Louis now stands.
		If there were any other existing Curtis or Orr relatives, they must have been distant, or satisfied that the boys were in the good hands of their stepfather and the Edson's.
	www.angelfire.com /la/rhcurtis (1829 words)

	Charles Curtis: Indian Vice-President
		Timeline A: The Indians in Kansas, with Charles Curtis.
		Timeline B : The timelines of Kansas and the United States, combined with the timelines of Kansa-Osage-Potawatomi Indians and Charles Curtis.
		Memorials and donations for memorial of the graves of Charles Curtis and his wife, Annie Elizabeth Baird.
	www.vpcharlescurtis.net (1248 words)

	NTI: Press Room
		NTI President Charles Curtis discussed the importance of international cooperation in combating the threat from weapons of mass destruction at the World Leaders' Summit in California.
		Curtis discusses the risk of catastrophic terrorism and what we need to be doing about it, including developing a comprehensive national security threat analysis, fixing government spending priorities, and realizing the G-8 commitment.
		Curtis emphasizes the importance of international scientific cooperation and encourages the active involvement of scientists in shaping public policy and helping to form a global coalition against catastrophic terrorism.
	www.nti.org /c_press/c1_speeches.html (2064 words)

	NewMexiKen » Charles Curtis… (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Curtis was the 31st vice president of the United States, serving under President Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933.
		Curtis is the only person with non-European ancestry to ever serve as President or Vice President.
		Curtis served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1893 to 1907, and in the U.S. Senate from 1907 to 1913 and 1915 to 1929.
	newmexiken.com /archives/2004/01/00715.php (424 words)

	Charles Curtis
		For decades she has been a kind of underground luminary, and in recent years her work has exercised a decisive influence on a younger generation of musicians working with electronics in a minimalist aesthetic.
		Cellist Charles Curtis worked closely with Radigue on the creation of her first-ever work for an acoustic instrument without electronics, "Naldjorlak".
		Charles Curtis opened and closed the show with 2 cello pieces he will be performing in NY and on the east coast next month.
	www.blogsandiego.com /charlescurtis.htm (687 words)

	Charles Curtis, gravesite rededicated
		rededicated the restored and enhanced Memorial for Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States, at 10:30 a.m on Thursday, July 18, 2002 at the Topeka Cemetery, 1601 SE 10th St., Topeka, Kansas.
		Curtis is the only Kansan to serve in the Senate from both the Lane line of succession (1907-13) and the Pomeroy (1915-29).
		Kansans supported their native son for President in 1924 and 1928, but Curtis settled for second place as vice presidental running mate to Herbert Hoover on the 1928 Republican ticket.
	www.washburn.edu /cas/art/cyoho/archive/Events/ccurtisrededicate (422 words)

	Charles CURTIS
		“Charles Curtis of Kansas, Vice-President of the United States, 1929-1933.” Emporia State Research Studies 10 (December 1961): 5-58.
		Unrau, William E. “Charles Curtis: The Politics of Allottment.” In Indian Lives: Essays on Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Native American Leaders, edited by L.G. Moses and Raymond Wilson, pp.
		“The Mixed-Blood Connection: Charles Curtis and Kaw Detribalization.” In Kansas and the West: Bicentennial Essays in Honor of Nyle H. Miller, edited by Forrest R. Blackburn, et al., pp.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/us/congress/curtis-charles.html (227 words)

	Charles Curtis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One of the Pappan-Roy daughters married an American abolitionist named Curtis while the Kansa were still in Kansas.
		Their son, Charles Curtis (1860-1936), orphaned at an early age, lived at the Kaw Agency with his grandmother Julie Pappan until she persuaded him to go to his relatives in Topeka.
		Curtis sought the presidential nomination in 1928 but lost to Herbert Hoover; Curtis then accepted the second spot on the Republican ticket and served as Hoover's Vice-President from 1929-1933.
	www.kaycounty.info /NCOHA/c_curtis.htm (210 words)

	Mrs. Nancy Hosford Curtis 1850-1943
		Her husband, the late Charles F. Curtis, who died Dec. 21, 1915, was the founder of the industry which still bears the Curtis name.
		Curtis was a member of a pioneer Clinton family.
		In the meantime she had been educated in the Clinton public schools and in Rockford College, a school for girls, which is still in operation and of which Mrs.
	iagenweb.org /boards/clinton/obituaries/index.cgi?review=14233 (440 words)

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