Charles Dawes

See also: Charles, Dawes

Charles Gates Dawes (1865 - 1951) was the Nobel Prize of peace 1925 and the 30e Vice-président of the United States of America.

Charles Dawes was born the August 27th 1865 in Marietta, Ohio.

Graduate in right to the University of Cincinnati, it is allowed with the bar and settles with Lincoln, Nebraska starting from 1887. He will exert thereafter various official functions in the bank or at the Department of the Treasury.

In 1902, it tries to be made elect senator but fails.

During the First World War, it is used its country with the rank as brigadier general.

In 1923, its work with the Commission of allied repair, where it takes an active part in the restoration and the stabilization of the German economy (Plan Dawes), confers to him the Nobel Prize of peace in 1925.

The November 5th 1924, Charles Dawes, a republican , is elected vice-president of the United States at the side of the president Calvin Coolidge. It takes up duty the March 4th 1925.

At the end of its mandate the March 3rd 1929, he becomes ambassador of the United States in Great Britain, station which he leaves in 1932.

It turns over then in the bank and financial world until its death the April 23rd 1951 to Evanston, Illinois.

It is buried with the cemetery of Rosehill with Chicago, Illinois.

Pianist and type-setter at his lost hours, Charles Dawes composed in 1912 the Mélodie in has Major , adapted later under the title It' S All In The Game and recorded by artists such as Tommy Edwards, Van Morrison, Cliff Richard or Elton John.

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