Grand Old Partisan salutes Charles Dawes, born in Ohio, August 27th 1865. This son of a Civil War hero graduated from the Cincinnati Law School. He managed the Illinois state campaign for Willam McKinley. The new President appointed him Comptroller of the Currency.
Dawes was a brigadier general during WWI, in charge of purchasing for the American military. President Warren Harding named him director at the Bureau of the Budget. In 1924, he was elected as Calvin Coolidge’s running mate. President Herbert Hoover made him ambassador to Britain, and then chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Charles Dawes is the only Vice President to have composed a hit song, known as "It’s All in the Game."
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Michael Zak is author of Back to Basics for the Republican Party, a history of GOP civil rights achievement.
Each day, Michael Zak's grandoldpartisan YouTube channel and Grand Old Partisan blog celebrate more than sixteen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. And, see Speech Raves for audience feedback from his presentations in thirty-one states so far.
He also wrote the 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar.
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