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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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 Charles G. Dawes biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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.
Dawes was interested in public utilities and banking 1894- 1897, Comptroller of the Currency, United States Department of the Treasury 1898 - 1901.
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 OCC 140th Anniversary - Profile of Profile of Comptroller Charles Gates Dawes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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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 Charles Dawes [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Charles Gates Dawes ( August 27 August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining.
Dawes, a great-grandson of the Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen of her North American colonies.
Dawes was elected on November 5, 1924 Events January January 7 - Great fire in London harbour January 8 - Heavy blizzards in England January 10 - British submarine L-34 sinks in the English Channel - 43 dead.
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 Arboretum History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Founders Beman and Bertie Dawes at The Dawes Arboretum in 1945
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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 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President (1925-1929)
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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 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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 CHARLES G. DAWES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Charles Gates Dawes, (1865-1951), doz, American financier and diplomat, who was VICE PRESIDENT of the United States in 1925-1929.
He was born in Marietta, Ohio, on Aug. 27, 1865, the son of Gen. Rufus R. Dawes, a Civil War veteran, and Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes, both of New England ancestry.
Dawes loved music, taught himself to play the flute and the piano, composed a dozen pieces that were published, and gave generous support to the Chicago Grand Opera Company.
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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.
In 1917 Dawes received his commission as a major in the army and twenty-six months later was discharged as a brigadier general.
Bliven, Bruce, «Dawes: Supersalesman», in The New Republic, 53 (1928) 263-267.
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 Charles G. Dawes - Biography
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.
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.
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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 Articles - William Dawes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
William Dawes (1745 - 1799) was one of three men who alerted colonial Minutemen of the approach of British army troops with the intent of seizing munitions stores prior to the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
Dawes and Paul Revere were assigned by Doctor Joseph Warren to ride separately from Boston, Massachusetts to Lexington.
Though Revere's importance would later be exaggerated and Dawes overlooked in the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Revere nevertheless did have a major role in organizing the manufacture and storage of gunpowder for the militia and the alert system used during the Powder Alarm raids.
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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 Gates Dawes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
U.S. vice president, ambassador, and author of the "Dawes Plan" for managing Germany's reparations payments after World War I. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace jointly with Sir Austen Chamberlain.
This "Dawes Plan" saved Europe from economic collapse for a few years, but it proved to be only a partial solution for the dilemma of world economic disorganization.
Dawes was the author of several works including A Journal of the Great War (1921), Notes as Vice President (1935), and A Journal of Reparations (1939).
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 Peace Project : Biographies of Peace Prize Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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.
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 Vice President Charles Gates Dawes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951), Vice-President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge
Dawes lived near the lakefront in Evanston, not far north of Rosehill.
The Evanston Historical Society currently maintains the Charles Gates Dawes House.
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 Dawes, Charles Gates. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
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 G. --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
An ambassador and author of the “Dawes Plan” for managing Germany's reparations payments after World War I, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace jointly with Sir Austen Chamberlain in 1925.
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...
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 Charles G. Dawes CollectionAn inventory of its records at the University of Illinois at ChicagoInventory prepared by ...
Charles Gates Dawes was born on August 27, 1865 in Marietta, Ohio to General Rufus R. Dawes, and Mary Beman Gates.
Dawes returned to public service in World War I and served as head of supply procurement for the U.S. Army in France holding the rank of Brigadier General.
Charles G. Dawes then ran with President Calvin Coolidge and was elected to serve as the 30th Vice-President of the United States in 1924.
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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.
British Astronomer William Rutter Dawes (1799-1868) is one of six pioneers in astronomy featured in the Web's History of Astronomy.
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 Ancestors of Dylan James Schiele
Charles Gates Dawes died on 23 Apr 1851 in Evanston, Cook, Illinois.
Dawes was born on 4 Jul 1838 in Malta,,Ohio.
He was married to Mary Bernan Gates on 18 Jan 1864 in Marietta, Washington, Ohio.
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 DAWES, Charles Gates (1865-1951) Guide to Research Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The papers include correspondence of Charles Gates Dawes’s relatives, together with correspondence to William McKinley, scrapbooks, memorial information about Charles Gates Dawes, general and personal items, writings, speeches, family papers, inventories, invitations, schedulebooks, family history and genealogy, probate will, and a petition.
Topics covered in the papers include Charles Gates Dawes’s work in politics, business law and banking, foreign policy during World War I and the Hoover years, World War I reparations, philanthropy, and music scores.
In the letter, Charles Gates Dawes regretfully declines to speak at the Daughters of the American Revolution dedication of the old home of Antoine Le Claire.
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 Dawes, Charles Gates on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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.
Dawes served (1925-29) as Vice President under Calvin Coolidge.
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 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.
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 Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
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.
In 1923 Dawes was appointed by the Allied Reparations Commission to plan a solution for the problem of Germany's inability to pay reparations for its liability for World War I as set forth in the Treaty of Versailles.
Dawes presided over a committee of experts that submitted a plan in 1924 providing for a reorganization of German finances with the assistance of loans from American investors.
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 Marietta College announces Hall of Honor Class of 2003
Dawes recounted the history of his regiment in “Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers.” Promoted to Major in 1862, Dawes moved up the military ranks until named Brevet Brigadier General in 1864 for meritorious service.
Dawes also served on the Board of Trustees of his beloved Alma Mater from 1871 until his death, 28 years later.
Dawes was the father of Beeman Gates Dawes (Class of 1890), who founded the Dawes Arboretum.
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