- Born
- Died
- Birth nameCharles Gates Dawes
- Nicknames
- Charging Charlie
- Hell and Maria
- Height5′ 11½″ (1.82 m)
- Charles Dawes was born on August 27, 1865 in Marietta, Ohio, USA. He was married to Caro D. Blymver. He died on April 23, 1951 in Evanston, Illinois, USA.
- SpouseCaro D. Blymver(January 24, 1889 - April 23, 1951) (his death, 4 children)
- Vice President of the USA, 4 March 1925 - 3 March 1929 (under Calvin Coolidge).
- Recipient of 1925 Nobel Peace Prize.
- Admitted (1886) to the bar, Dawes practiced law in Lincoln, Nebr., until 1894.
- He was a member of the Republican executive committee in William McKinley's presidential campaign (1896) and served (1897-1901) as comptroller of the Treasury.
- Herbert Hoover appointed him ambassador to London in 1929.
- Sure we paid. We didn't dicker. Why, man alive, we had to win the war. We would have paid horse prices for sheep if sheep could have pulled artillery to the front. Oh, it's all right now to say we bought too much vinegar and too many cold chisels, but we saved the civilization of the world. Damn it all, the business of the army is to win the war, not to quibble around with a lot of cheap buying. Hell and Maria, we weren't trying to keep a set of books, we were trying to win the war!
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