Charles G. Dawes CollectionAn inventory of the collection at the University of Illinois at ChicagoInventory prepared by George Stachokas.

Charles G. Dawes Collection

An inventory of the collection at the University of Illinois at Chicago


Collection Summary
	Creator:	Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951.
	Title:	Charles G. Dawes Collection
	Dates:	1856/1946
	Abstract:	The Charles G. Dawes Collection consists mostly of family correspondence with some speeches, professional correspondence, and a few miscellaneous illustrations and programs included.
	Quantity:	1 linear foot
	Identification:	CDawes

Biography of Charles Dawes

Charles Gates Dawes was born on August 27, 1865 in Marietta, Ohio to General Rufus R. Dawes, and Mary Beman Gates. Charles's father had served with distinction in the Union army during the Civil War and later sat in the U.S. Congress. Charles G. Dawes studied at Marietta College and Cincinnati Law School in Ohio. From 1887 to 1894, Dawes practiced law in Lincoln, Nebraska, relocating permanently to Evanston, Illinois in 1894.

Appointed United States comptroller of the currency in 1897, Dawes resigned in a failed effort to secure the Republican Party's nomination for U.S. Senate candidate in 1901. He then shifted his energies toward banking as he organized the Central Trust Company of Illinois. Dawes returned to public service in World War I and served as head of supply procurement for the U.S. Army in France holding the rank of Brigadier General.

President Warren G. Harding appointed Dawes as the first director of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget in 1921. Dawes is perhaps best known for the Dawes Plan that temporarily saved Europe from economic collapse after World War I. Appointed by the Allied Reparations Commission to help Germany find a way to pay her enormous reparations to the Allies, Dawes presided over a committee that reorganized Germany's schedule of payments with the help of loans from American investors.

Charles G. Dawes then ran with President Calvin Coolidge and was elected to serve as the 30th Vice-President of the United States in 1924. Notable activities included energetic campaigning against the Ku Klux Klan, attempts to limit the use of the filibuster in the U.S. Senate, and support for the Kellogg-Briand Pact (an international treaty that sought to eliminate war as an instrument of foreign policy). He later served as Ambassador to Great Britain (1929-1932) under President Herbert Hoover. After briefly heading the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932, Dawes returned to private life in the banking business. Charles Gates Dawes died in Evanston, Illinois on April 23, 1951.

Scope and Contents

The Charles G. Dawes Collection consists mostly of family correspondence with some speeches, professional correspondence, and a few miscellaneous illustrations and programs included.


Index Terms
	This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
	Subjects:
		Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951 --Archives.

		Chicago Political and Civic Life

Bibliography

: "Charles G. Dawes" Encyclopaedia Britannica from Encyclopaedia Britannica Onlin. http://search.eb.com/eb/article?eu=30011 [Accessed June 7, 2004].

Detailed Description/Box and Folder Listing


Charles Dawes Collection
Box	Folder
1	1	Correspondence - Aunt Bettie, 1876-1896
	2	Genealogy, 1878
	3	Correspondence - Mother (Mary Beman Gates Dawes), 1881-1883
	4	Correspondence - Father (General Rufus Dawes), 1888
	5	Correspondence - Brother (Beman) re. social life, 1882-1889
	6	Correspondence - Major E.C. Dawes (uncle), 1884-1895
	7	Correspondence - Uncle Will, 1887-1891
	8	Correspondence, 1885-1886
	9	Correspondence - Sister (Mary D. Beach), 1887-1891
	10	Correspondence - Father (Gen. Rufus Dawes), 1886-1887
	11	Correspondence - Sister (Mary D. Beach), 1887
	12	Correspondence, clipping, 1887
	13	Correspondence - Mother, 1887
	14	Real estate listing, 1887
	15	Correspondence, 1887-1889
	16	Correspondence - Mother, 1887
	17	Correspondence - Brother (Henry M. Dawes), 1887-1890
	18	Correspondence, 1888
	19	Correspondence - Mother, 1888
	20	Correspondence - Father, 1888-1896
	21	Correspondence, 1889
	22	Correspondence - Relatives, 1889-1890
	23	Correspondence - Mother, 1889
	24	Correspondence - Uncle, 1889-1893
	25	Correspondence - W.C. Walton, Esq., 1889
	26	Correspondence - Brother (Beman), 1889-1891
	27	Correspondence - Sister (Bessie), 1889
	28	Correspondence - Mother, 1889-1890
	29	Correspondence - Aunt and Uncle (Mr. & Mrs. Sala Bosworth), 1889
	30	Correspondence - Geo. A. Crancer & Co., 1890
	31	Correspondence, 1890
	32	Correspondence - Mother, 1890-1891
	33	Correspondence - James W. Ellsworth, Esq., 1890-1893
	34	Correspondence, 1890
	35	Correspondence, 1891
	36	Correspondence - Sarah J. Cutler, 1891-1924
	37	Correspondence - Aunt (Frances B. Dawes), 1891-1924
	38	Correspondence - Brother (Rufus C. Dawes), 1891-1928
	39	Correspondence - Sam T. Brush, 1891
	40	Correspondence - R.H. Evans re. lost dog, 1891
	41	Correspondence, 1892-1897
Box	Folder
2	42	Correspondence - Mother, 1892-1897
	43	Correspondence - Uncle (Will W. Mills), 1894-1921
	44	Correspondence - Father, 1897-1898
	45	Correspondence - Sister (Mary), 1887-1891
	46	Correspondence, 1898-1921
	47	Correspondence - Father, 1899
	48	Speech - Currency reform, 1899
	49	Correspondence - Mother, 1900-1913
	50	Correspondence - C.H. McConnell, 1912
	51	Correspondence - Brooks Beitler, 1912
	52	Correspondence - William R. Jemey, 1912
	53	Correspondence - Mother, 1914-1921
	54	Correspondence - From Mother to Charles and Cora, 1916-1921
	55	Correspondence - Belgian Government, 1916-1917
	56	Memorandum - Requirements list for 7th Regiment, U.S. Reserve Engineers, 1917
	57	Correspondence, 1917
	58	Empty addressed envelopes, 1917-1929
	59	Correspondence - Nephew (Rufus Beach), 1918
	60	Correspondence - Red Cross, 1919
	61	Correspondence - Cousin (Sarah J. Shedd), 1921
	62	Speech - Given at laying of cornerstone for Harding Memorial, 1926
	63	Speech, 1926
	64	Correspondence, 1928
	65	Speech, 1928
	66	Joslin, Theodore G. "No Silent Vice President was Charles G. Dawes." Boston Evening Transcript. Jan. 23, 1929.
	67	Correspondence, 1929
	68	Correspondence - Rejection letter for submission to Atlantic Monthly, 1940
	69	Correspondence, programs, 1940
	70	Correspondence - Genealogy, 1941
	71	Correspondence - Sister, 1942
	72	Correspondence - Society of the War of 1812, 1946
	73	Poem, "Like Hell," anonymous, n.d.
	74	School essay, n.d.
	75	Charles G. Dawes - Essay re. Science and Scientists, n.d.
	76	Earl Godwin - Essay re. Charles G. Dawes, n.d.
	77	Illustration of President William McKinley, n.d.
	78	Charles G. Dawes - Essay re. stoicism, n.d.