Charles Gates Dawes was an American banker, general, diplomat, composer, and Republican politician who was the 30th vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929 under Calvin Coolidge.
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42 Facts About Charles Dawes
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Charles Dawes remained in that position until 1901 before forming the Central Trust Company of Illinois.
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Charles Dawes served as a general during World War I and was the chairman of the general purchasing board for the American Expeditionary Forces.
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Charles Dawes served on the Allied Reparations Commission, where he helped formulate the Charles Dawes Plan to aid the struggling German economy, though the plan was eventually replaced by the Young Plan.
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Charles Dawes helped pass the McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill in Congress, but President Coolidge vetoed it.
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Charles Dawes briefly led the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which organized a government response to the Great Depression.
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Charles Dawes resigned from that position in 1932 to return to banking, and died in 1951 of coronary thrombosis.
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Charles Dawes was born in Marietta, Ohio, in Washington County, son of Civil War General Rufus Charles Dawes and his wife Mary Beman Gates.
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Charles Dawes's uncle Ephraim C Dawes was a Major who served under Ulysses S Grant at the Shiloh and Siege of Vicksburg, and was severely wounded at the Battle of Dallas, Georgia, in May 1864.
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Charles Dawes had two sisters, Mary Frances Dawes Beach, and Betsey Gates Dawes Hoyt.
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Charles Dawes graduated from Marietta College in 1884 and Cincinnati Law School in 1886.
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Pershing received a law degree at Nebraska and proposed leaving the army to go into private practice with Charles Dawes, who cautioned him against giving up the regular army pay for the uncertainty of legal remuneration.
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Charles Dawes relocated from Lincoln to Chicago during the Panic of 1893.
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Charles Dawes is the only vice president to be credited with a number-one pop hit.
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Charles Dawes thought that, with the help of the McKinley Administration, he could win it.
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Charles Dawes organized the Central Trust Company of Illinois, where he served as its president until 1921.
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Charles Dawes helped support the first Anglo-French Loan to the Entente powers of $500 million.
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Charles Dawes's support was important because the House of Morgan needed public support from a non-Morgan banker.
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From August 1917 to August 1919, Charles Dawes served in France during WWI as chairman of the general purchasing board for the American Expeditionary Forces.
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Charles Dawes was decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal and the French Croix de Guerre in recognition of his service.
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Charles Dawes returned to the US aboard the SS Leviathan in August 1919.
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Charles Dawes published a memoir of his World War I service, A Journal of the Great War, 1921.
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Charles Dawes resigned from the Army in 1919 and became a member of the American Legion.
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Charles Dawes supported Frank Lowden at the 1920 Republican National Convention, but the presidential nomination went to Warren G Harding.
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Charles Dawes devised the solution to the European crisis: The Dawes Plan loaned large sums of American bank money to the German economy.
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Coolidge quickly accepted the delegates' choice and felt that Charles Dawes would be loyal to him and make a strong addition to his campaign.
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Charles Dawes traveled throughout the country during the campaign, giving speeches to bolster the Republican ticket.
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Charles Dawes frequently attacked Progressive nominee Robert M La Follette as a dangerous radical who sympathized with the Bolsheviks.
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The Coolidge-Charles Dawes ticket was elected on November 4,1924, with more popular votes than the candidates of the Democratic and Progressive parties combined.
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Charles Dawes declined to attend Cabinet meetings and annoyed Coolidge with his attack on the Senate filibuster.
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Charles Dawes championed the McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill, which sought to alleviate the 1920s farm crisis by having the government buy surplus farm produce and sell that surplus in foreign markets.
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Charles Dawes helped ensure the passage of the bill through Congress, but President Coolidge vetoed it.
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Charles Dawes again favored Frank Lowden at the 1928 Republican National Convention, but the convention chose Herbert Hoover.
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Charles Dawes was rather rough-hewn for some of his duties, disliking presenting American debutantes to the King.
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Charles Dawes served for nearly two decades as chairman of the board of City National from 1932 until his death.
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Charles Dawes died on April 23,1951, at his Evanston home from coronary thrombosis at the age of 85.
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Charles Dawes was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts from 1925 until his death in 1951.
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Charles Dawes spent his life promoting solid Republican values of small government with restrained budgets.
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The Charles Dawes family continued to occupy it until the death of Mrs Charles Dawes in 1957.
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