30th Vice President Charles Gates Dawes

1865 - 1951  (85 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Charles Gates Dawes
  Prefix	30th Vice President
  Birth	27 Aug 1865	Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Apr 1951	Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, USA
  Burial	Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  Siblings	1 Sibling
  1. 30th Vice President Charles Gates Dawes,   b. 27 Aug 1865, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, USA d. 23 Apr 1951, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, USA  (Age 85 years)   2. Beman Gates Dawes   d. Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I302397	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2002

  
  

  Father	Lt. Col. Rufus R. Dawes   d. 1899
  Mother	Mary Beman Gates,   b. 1842   d. 1921 (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F121262	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  U.S. Vice President (1925-1929), Ambassador to Great Britain (1929-1931), Nobel Peace Prize recipient 1925, banker, Comptroller of the Currency, attorney, and author. attended the common schools; was graduated from Marietta College in 1884 and from the Cincinnati Law School in 1886; was admitted to the bar in 1886 and practiced in Lincoln, Nebr., 1887-1894; interested in public utilities and banking 1894-1897; Comptroller of the Currency, United States Treasury Department 1898-1901; unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1902; during the First World War was commissioned major, lieutenant colonel, and brigadier general of the Seventeenth Engineers; served with the American Expeditionary Forces as chief of supply procurement and was a member of the Liquidation Commission, War Department; resigned from the Army 1919; upon the creation of the Bureau of the Budget was appointed its first Director in 1921; appointed to the Allied Reparations Commission in 1923; for his work on a program to enable Germany to restore and stabilize its economy, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925; elected on November 5, 1924, Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket with President Calvin Coolidge and was inaugurated March 4, 1925, for the term ending March 3, 1929; Ambassador to Great Britain 1929-1932; resumed the banking business and was chairman of the board of the City National Bank and Trust Co., Chicago, Ill., from 1932 until his death