U.S. Vice Presidents: Charles Dawes

Vice President Dawes...

• ...was a very ambitious person who along with his law practice also managed a meat packing company.
• ...became very wealthy and purchase control of a number of artificial gas plants.
• ...was best known for his Dawes Plan, which was a plan to collect war reparations debt from Germany following World War I.
• ...was awarded jointly with Sir Austen Chamberlain the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925 for the Dawes Plan and his works on World War I.
• ...was a self-taught pianist and composer. 

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. For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations, he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925. 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, and 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 also served on the Allied Reparations Commission, where he helped formulate the Dawes Plan to aid the struggling German economy, though the plan was eventually replaced by the Young Plan.

I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am of the Senate at the end.
                                     

—Charles G. Dawes

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