Dawes, Charles G(ates) 1865-1951
US diplomat, politician and Nobel Prize winner

Born in Marietta, Ohio, he studied at Marietta College and Cincinnati Law School and was admitted to the Bar. He gained administrative experience as brigadiergeneral in charge of military procurement for US forces in France in World War I and was appointed director of the Budget in 1921. He was head of the commission that drew up the Dawes Plan (1924) for reducing and reorganizing German reparation payments. He shared the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize with Sir Austen Chamberlain, for negotiating the Locarno Pact. He served as Republican Vice-President (1925-29) under Calvin Coolidge and later became US ambassador to Great Britain.

Bibliography: Bascom N Timmons, Portrait of an American: Charles G Dawes (1953)