Vice President under Calvin Coolidge March 4, 1925 until March 3, 1929
DAWES, Charles Gates,(son
of Rufus Dawes and brother of Beman Gates Dawes), a Vice President of the United
States; born in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, August 27, 1865; 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 in Evanston, Ill., April 23,
1951; interment in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Ill. - -Biographical
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