\"30th Vice President\" Charles G. Dawes Hand Signed 2X4 Card Mounted For Sale

Up for sale the "30th Vice President" Charles G. Dawes Hand Signed 2X4 Card Mounted 3X5. 

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Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865

– April 23, 1951) was an American banker, general, diplomat, was the 30th vice

president of the United States from 1925 to 1929. For his work

on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations,

he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925. Born in Marietta, Ohio, Dawes attended Cincinnati Law School before

beginning a legal career in Lincoln, Nebraska. After serving as a gas plant executive, he

managed William McKinley's 1896

presidential campaign in Illinois. After the election, McKinley appointed Dawes

as the Comptroller

of the Currency, and he remained in that position until 1901 before

forming the Central Trust Company of Illinois. Dawes served as a general

during World War I, holding the

position of chairman of the general purchasing board for the American Expeditionary

Forces. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed Dawes as the first Director

of the Bureau of the Budget.

Dawes also served on the Allied Reparations Commission, where he helped

formulate the Dawes Plan to aid the struggling German economy, though the plan was eventually replaced

by the Young Plan. The 1924

Republican National Convention nominated President Calvin Coolidge without opposition. After Frank Lowden declined the vice presidential nomination,

the convention chose Dawes as Coolidge's running mate. The Republican ticket

won the 1924

presidential election and Dawes was sworn in as vice president

in 1925. Dawes helped pass the McNary–Haugen Farm Relief

Bill in Congress, but the bill was vetoed by President

Coolidge. Dawes was a candidate for re-nomination at the 1928

Republican National Convention, but Coolidge's opposition to Dawes

helped ensure that Charles Curtis was

nominated for the vice presidency instead. In 1929, President Herbert Hoover appointed Dawes to be the Ambassador

to the United Kingdom. Dawes also briefly led the Reconstruction Finance

Corporation, which organized a government response to the Great

Depression. He resigned from that position in 1932 to return to

banking, and he died in 1951 of coronary thrombosis.