Charles G. Dawes
vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929
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Charles G. Dawes served as Vice President of the United States from 1925 to 1929 under President Calvin Coolidge during a prosperous period in American history. He is a significant figure in early 20th-century American politics and governance, representing an important era in the nation's development between World War I and the Great Depression.
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- Portrait Of An American
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- Notes As Vice President 1928 1929
- Banking System of the United States and Its Relation to the Money and Business of the Country
- Journal As Ambassador To Great Britain
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Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was the 30th vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929 under President Calvin Coolidge. He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925 for his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations, and a member of the Republican Party.
Born in Marietta, Ohio, Dawes attended Cincinnati Law School before beginning a legal career in Lincoln, Nebraska. After serving as a gas plant executive, he managed William McKinley's 1896 presidential campaign in Illinois. After the election, McKinley appointed Dawes as the Comptroller of the Currency. He remained in that position until 1901 before forming the Central Trust Company of Illinois. Dawes served as a general during World War I and was the chairman of the general purchasing board for the American Expeditionary Forces. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed Dawes as the first director of the Bureau of the Budget. Dawes served on the Allied Reparations Commission, where he helped formulate the Dawes Plan to aid the struggling German economy.
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1865 births1924 United States vice-presidential candidates1951 deaths19th-century American politicians20th-century American diplomats20th-century vice presidents of the United StatesAmbassadors of the United States to the United KingdomAmerican CongregationalistsAmerican military engineersAmerican Nobel laureatesBankers from IllinoisBurials at Rosehill Cemetery