Biographies
                                     Charles Gates DAWES
                                    Cook County, Illinois

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        Cristy Thompson [Blondie2jt@aol.com], May 2000


CHARLES GATES DAWES

Comptroller of the Treasury was born in Marietta, Ohio on August 27, 1865. He
graduated from Marietta College in 1884, and from the Cincinnati Law School
in 1886. He worked at civil engineering during his vacations finally becoming
Chief Engineer of the Toledo & Ohio Railroad.

Between 1887 and 1894 he was engaged in the practice of law at Lincoln,
Nebraska but afterwards became interested in the gas business in various
cities including Evanston, Illinois which became his home.

In 1896 he took a leading part in securing instructions by the Republican
State Convention at Springfield in favor of the nomination of Mr. McKinley
for the Presidency and during the succeeding campaign served as a member of
the National Republican Committee for the state of Illinois. Soon after the
accession of President McKinley he was appointed Comptroller of the Treasury
a position which he now holds. Mr. Dawes is the son of R. B. Dawes a former
Congressman from Ohio and the great-grandson of Manasseh Cutler who was an
influential factor in the early history of the Northwest Territory, and has
been credited with exerting a strong influence in shaping and securing the
adoption of the Ordinance of 1787.

Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois. Page 605-606



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