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  Charles G. Dawes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dawes, a great-grandson of the Revolutionary War figure William Dawes, was born in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, and graduated from Marietta College in 1884 and from the Cincinnati Law School in 1886.
Dawes was interested in public utilities and banking 1894-1897, Comptroller of the Currency, United States Department of the Treasury 1898-1901.
Dawes was elected on November 5, 1924, Vice President on the Republican ticket with President Calvin Coolidge and was inaugurated March 4, 1925 for the term ending March 3, 1929.
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 Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Ch-Charles D)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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 OCC 140th Anniversary - Profile of Profile of Comptroller Charles Gates Dawes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Charles Gates Dawes was born on August 27, 1865, in Marietta, Ohio.
Dawes earned a B.A. in 1884, and an M.A. in 1887 from Marietta College; in 1886, he earned a law degree from Cincinnati Law School.
Dawes served as the western treasurer of William McKinley’s 1896 presidential campaign.
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 Dawes Family - Generation 2
A meeting and dinner being held at the DAWES TAVERN is recorded in the S.A. Register of the 25th Nov.1839, and as there were no other DAWES's recorded in S.A. at that time, it would be reasonable to assume that this may have been his first venture beyond his trade.
Charles also invested in land at YATALA, so that by 1845 he was able to lease a shop and dwelling in Craigie Buildings, Hindley St., where he established a boot and shoe making business.
June 1888 at Charles St., Norwood, and is buried with her daughter, Amelia in the West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide.
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 Search Results for "Dawes"
Dawes Plan, presented in 1924 by the committee headed (1923-24) by Charles G. Dawes to the Reparations Commission of the Allied nations.
Dawes Commission, commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, created by the U.S. Congress in 1893 under the Dawes Act with H. Dawes as chairman.
Dawes Act, or General Allotment Act, 1887, passed by the U.S. Congress to provide for the granting of landholdings (allotments, usually 160 acres/65 hectares) to...
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 OSCN Found Document:HAWKINS v. KLEIN
Minnie Ball Dawes, one of the parties of the first part, died on about the 4th of February, 1919, leaving as her sole heirs at law Charles Dawes, her husband, and Beatrice Peters Schapp, and Juanita Alma Dawes, her daughters.
After her death her husband, Charles Dawes, and Beatrice Peters Schapp and Juanita Alma Dawes, her daughters, took the property by inheritance, being her sole heirs, and they were co-owners of the land and rights accruing under the lease.
Upon the authority of the cited case, the notice issued by Charles Dawes alone, a cotenant and not sole owner, was a nullity, and did not effectuate a forfeiture; and the trial court correctly so held.
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 US Vice - Presidents - Charles Dawes
Charles Dawes was also a self-taught pianist and had written A Melody in A Major that later became “it’s all in the name of the game” when words were added in 1951.
Dawes and his wife were so distraught over the loss that they withdrew from most social activity and turned their attention to Philanthropy.
When Charles Dawes spoke for the first time as the new President of the Senate he began a scathing speech against filibusters telling the Senators that their rules allowing a minority to have power over the majority was “contrary to the principals of constitutional government”.
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 Charles G. Dawes - Biography
Four generations earlier, William Dawes had ridden with Paul Revere on April 18, 1775, to warn the Massachusetts colonists of the British advance which signalized the opening of the American Revolution; and seven generations earlier in 1628 the first William Dawes had been among the Puritans who came to America.
Since Charles Dawes's mother had graduated from Marietta College and his father was on its Board of Trustees, it was almost inevitable that he would enroll there.
In 1917 Dawes received his commission as a major in the army and twenty-six months later was discharged as a brigadier general.
nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1925/dawes-bio.html   (1266 words)

  
 Dawes, Charles Gates on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Admitted (1886) to the bar, Dawes practiced law in Lincoln, Nebr., until 1894 and became interested in various gas and electric companies.
He was a member of the Republican executive committee in William McKinley's presidential campaign (1896) and served (1897-1901) as comptroller of the Treasury.
In 1921 he was appointed director (the first) of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget (see budget); in 1923-24 he was head of the reparations committee that advanced the Dawes Plan as a means of stabilizing postwar German finances.
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 Dawes, Charles Gates
Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865-April 23, 1951) pursued two careers during his lifetime, one in business and finance, the other in public service.
In 1917 Dawes enlisted as a major in the army and twenty-six months later was discharged as a brigadier general.
Dawes was a disciplined and productive man. He led a full life in the commercial and political world until the age of sixty-seven; he wrote nine books; he discharged countless civic duties.
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 Vice President Charles Dawes
Dawes often stole the spotlight from Coolidge in public settings, and the final insult came one day when Dawes was napping at a hotel in Washington.
Dawes' name was mud, as far as Calvin was concerned.
Charles Dawes once described the office of Vice President to Alben Barkley, who would himself occupy the same office under President Truman, "This is a hell of a job.
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 .: United States Information :. .: All American Patriots :.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Dawes became a highly decorated military officer during the First World War, was the president of a prestigious financial institution, was the first director of the Bureau of the Budget, and devised the "Dawes Plan" to salvage Europe's postwar economy, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Dawes similarly bristled over the social requirements of the vice-presidency, and as one Washington hostess recorded, "his social tactics, no less than his insubordination to the Senate, brought down blame upon him in Washington." Although he frequently dined out and entertained generously, it was always on his own terms.
Dawes, whose early career was shaken by the panic of 1893, was now confronted by an even greater financial crisis, one that shook his natural self-confidence and ended whatever remaining political chances he might have had.
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 Charles G. Dawes - TheBestLinks.com - Charles Dawes, August 27, April 23, Cincinnati, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865–April 23, 1951) was the 30th Vice President of the United States.
Dawes was born in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, and graduated from Marietta College in 1884 and from the Cincinnati Law School in 1886.
He was Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1932, and resumed the banking business and was chairman of the board of the City National Bank and Trust Co., Chicago, Illinois, from 1932 until his death in Evanston, Illinois.
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 Arboretum History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
William Mears Dawes was the son of William Dawes, who rode into American history with Paul Revere and Dr. Samuel Prescott to warn of the British invasion.
Charles G. Dawes (1865-1951), the oldest son of Rufus and Mary Gates Dawes, was born in Marietta on August 27, 1865; his mother’s twenty-third birthday.
Beman Gates Dawes, founder of The Dawes Arboretum, was born in Marietta, Ohio, on January 14, 1870.
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 Charles Gates Dawes won Nobel Peace Prize
On Aug. 27, 1865, Charles Gates Dawes - who would win the Nobel Peace Prize and became vice president of the United States - was born in Marietta.
Dawes graduated from Marietta College in 1884 and the Cincinnati Law School in 1886.
Dawes chaired the League of Nations committee on German reparations.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/08/27/loc_ohiodate0827.html   (212 words)

  
 VICE PRESIDENT CHARLES GATES DAWES - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 12/02/1903
CHARLES G. The former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency recommends a woman for a position in the Treasury Department.
Dawes had served as President McKinley's Comptroller of the Currency (1898-1901) and was one of those at his bedside when he died on September 14, 1901 after being shot in Buffalo.
In World War I, Dawes was Chief of Supply Procurement on General Pershing's staff and, in 1919, received the Distinguished Service Medal of the United States for "exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services" and medals from England, France, Italy and Belgium.
www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/10_2000/master/VICE_PRESIDENT_CHARLES_GATES_DAWES.htm   (290 words)

  
 About Dawes Middle School
Dawes Middle School was named after Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951) Charles Dawes came to Lincoln, Nebraska at the age of 21.
Dawes joined the Army and was given a commission as Major in the engineers.
After the war, General Dawes served as the first Director of the Budget under President Harding in 1921.
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 The American Enterprise: The Melodious Veep   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Charles Dawes, descendant of the eclipsed rider, first made his mark rather less heroically, as a lieutenant in the Mark Hanna political machine that elected William McKinley President.
Dawes’ subsequent stint as comptroller of the currency led naturally into banking, but he was musical enough to stand out among the plutocrats.
Dawes complained, “General Sherman, with justifiable profanity once expressed his detestation of the tune ‘Marching Through Georgia,’ to which he was compelled to listen whenever he appeared anywhere.
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 About the Dawes House
Opening of Rufus Fearing Dawes Hotel for Men to house and feed the unemployed homeless, followed in 1916 by the opening of the Rufus F. Dawes Hotel for Men in Boston, and the Mary Gates Dawes Hotel for Women in Chicago in 1917.
Dawes writes new set of boat drill regulations on voyage across Atlantic; it is adopted by his old friend Gen. John J. Pershing, who also appoints Dawes General Purchasing Agent.
Charles and Caro arrange to give (after their deaths) their home and shares of Commonwealth Edison stock to help maintain it to Northwestern University with stipulation that the Evanston Historical Society use it.
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 Charles G. Dawes --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Dawes was the son of General Rufus R. Dawes, a Union officer during the American Civil War and later a member of Congress, and Mary Beman Gates.
Dawes, Charles G. 30th vice president of the United States (1925–29) in the Republican administration of President Calvin Coolidge.
Dawes, Charles G. For his work on the Dawes Plan, which managed Germany's reparations payments after World War I, Charles G. Dawes was a corecipient of the Nobel prize for peace in 1925, sharing the honor with British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain.
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 Dawes Lore and Genealogy
Dawes had studied medicine as a young man and later became a clergyman with a small Independent congregation at Ormskirk, north of Liverpool.
I'm told that the names Dawe, Daws, and Dawes were interchangeable in the middle ages, so we're all cousins anyway.
Jennifer Dawes of Vancouver, B.C., reports that the Dawes brewery is mentioned in the history of Lachine...
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 Dawes folk who are famous... or NEARLY famous!
The Dawes Plan, which earned the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926, was his attempt to soften the blow of billions in reparations that Germany was paying after the Great War.
Charles is credited with the idea of prosecuting Al Capone for income tax evasion when other charges wouldn’t stick.
No Dawes family I know of claims him, but if any of his relatives show up here, I'd be happy to put up any kind words they might submit.
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 Charles Gates Dawes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951), a Republican, served as vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929 under President Calvin Coolidge.
He shared the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for arranging a plan for Germany to pay for damages it caused in World War I. Dawes was on the Allied General Purchasing Board during World War I. He became the first director of the federal budget in 1921.
Dawes was board chairman of the City National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago from 1932 until his death.
www.worldbook.com /features/presidents/html/dawes.htm   (161 words)

  
 HELL AND MARIA! : THE STORY OF CHARLES DAWES
He was the great-great-grandson of William Dawes, who joined Paul Revere on his famous ride to Lexington and Concord.
Charles Dawes is also remembered for a famous ride of his own, made shortly after he became Vice-President.
Charles Dawes began his career as a lawyer.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Dawes Plan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Dawes Plan, arrangement drawn up in 1924 to alleviate the burden of reparations imposed on Germany after World War I (1914-1918) as a result of the...
Statesman Gustav Stresemann took over the German government as the head of a broadly based coalition on August 13, 1923, and helped stabilize the...
Dawes, Charles Gates (1865-1951), American financier and the 30th vice-president of the United States (1925-1929), Nobel Peace Prize winner, and...
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 Peace Project : Biographies of Peace Prize Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Charles Gates Dawes was born on August 27th, 1865.
In late1923 The League of Nations invited Charles Gates to chair a committee to deal with the question of German reparations after World War I. In April 1924 the "Dawes Report" was submitted and provided information on Germany's budget and its resources.
For arranging the plan for Germany to pay for damages caused in World War I, Charles Gates Dawes was co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925.
www.edu.pe.ca /birchwood/peace/cd.htm   (100 words)

  
 Just the Arti-FACTS - Graveyards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Charles Dawes, a financier and diplomat, was the vice president of the United States under Calvin Coolidge from 1925 to 1929.
In 1924, he worked out the Dawes Plan with European representatives in Paris to stabilize the German mark, a feat for which he was co-winner of the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize.
Dawes was a skilled financial advisor with a knack for reducing expenditures.
www.chicagohs.org /aotm/oct98/dawes.html   (145 words)

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