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Charles
Dawes - 30th Vice President
Party: Republican
Term: March 4, 1925 - March 3, 1929
Age at Inauguration: 59
Life Span: Aug 27, 1865 - April 23, 1951 [85]
President:Calvin Coolidge |
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- Charles Dawes purchased a small utility
company that became a huge success enabling him to finance a
career in banking and finance
- He funded and organization known as
the Minutemen of the Constitution which in essence was a vigilante
group hired to disrupt the activities of labor unions
- During World War I he was assigned
chief purchasing agent for the army and when members of Congress
questioned his exuberant purchases he cried out, "Hell and
Maria," a quote he was forever identified with
- After the war he was appointed to
a commission to restore Europe's economy that became known as
the Dawes Plan, and in 1952 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- As vice president he pulled a blunder
that cost his party the nomination of Charles Warren as attorney
general
- Democrats called for a vote on the
controversial Warren while Dawes was at his hotel taking an afternoon
nap
- Even though he rushed back to the
chambers he was too late to cast a tie-breaking vote and confirm
Warren
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