Charles Gates Dawes Biography

Dawes organises a Chicago gas utility while expanding his banking and business interests.

Manages William McKinley's Illinois campaign during the presidential election.

Reforms national banking administration while serving as Comptroller of the Currency.

Appointed Comptroller of the Currency by President McKinley.

Leaves the Comptroller's office and returns to banking.

Runs unsuccessfully for the United States Senate from Illinois.

Composes a melody later adapted into the popular song It's All in the Game.

Serves in France as a senior procurement and supply officer for the American Expeditionary Forces.

Receives an Army commission after the United States enters World War I.

Appointed brigadier general and serves with the American Expeditionary Forces in France.

Works on supply procurement for the American Expeditionary Forces.

Serves as chairman of the General Purchasing Board for the American Expeditionary Forces.

Helps coordinate Allied purchasing and supply arrangements in France.

Resigns from the Army after wartime service in France.

Serves on the War Department Liquidation Commission after the armistice.

Takes charge after the Budget and Accounting Act creates the Bureau of the Budget.

Appointed first Director of the United States Bureau of the Budget.

Begins organizing the new Bureau of the Budget under President Harding.

Presses departments to reduce spending and follow central budget discipline.

Gains publicity for blunt testimony about wartime spending investigations.

Leaves the Budget Bureau after establishing strict early budget procedures.

Begins work with international experts on the German reparations problem.

Leads the reparations expert committee that prepares the Dawes Plan; he does not become Vice President until 1925.

Chosen to chair the committee reviewing German reparations after European deadlock.

Appointed to chair the expert committee studying German reparations; the later Dawes Plan is submitted in 1924.

The expert committee investigates how to collect German reparations debt after World War I.

Dawes works with American and European experts on a plan for German reparations.

The Dawes Committee proposes a reparations plan to stabilize German payments after World War I.

The Dawes Plan provides for annual German reparations; Dawes later shares the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize.

Submits the committee report on German reparations and financial stabilization.

The Dawes Plan supports foreign lending to stabilize the German economy.

The Dawes Plan recommends changes to stabilize German finance and support reparations.

The Dawes Plan reduces annual German payments at first and lets them rise over time.

Nominated as Calvin Coolidge's Republican running mate.

Elected Vice President on the Republican ticket with Calvin Coolidge.

Shares the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on German reparations.

Shares the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Dawes Plan.

Campaigns for Senate rules changes to curb filibusters and procedural delay.

Uses his vice-presidential inaugural speech to attack Senate procedural obstruction.

Begins presiding over the United States Senate as Vice President.

Sworn in as Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge.

Receives recognition for the Dawes Plan and international financial stabilization.

Supports international efforts associated with outlawing war as an instrument of policy.

Not renominated for Vice President when Charles Curtis joins Herbert Hoover's ticket.

Appointed United States ambassador to Great Britain after leaving the vice presidency.

Heads a mission advising the Dominican Republic on financial administration.

Leaves the vice presidency at the end of Coolidge's administration.

Begins service as ambassador to Great Britain.

Serves as a delegate to the London Naval Conference.

Works in London during diplomacy over war debts and reparations amid the Depression.

Dawes returns to Chicago banking after resigning from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

Heads the American delegation to the Geneva Disarmament Conference before returning home.

Oversees early emergency lending to banks, railroads and businesses.

Accepts chairmanship of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation during the Great Depression.