Charles Gates Dawes

(1865-1951) lived in Lincoln. Banker, attorney, businessman, served as U.S. Vice President 1925-29, appeared on cover of Time, December 14, 1925 and June 11, 1928; Ambassador to Great Britain, briefly headed Reconstruction Finance Corporation; co-recipient of 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for his Dawes Plan that enabled Germany to pay reparations and begin to build its economy; also composed piano score in 1911 titled "Melody in A Major," a popular song arranged for orchestras, small groups, and phonograph records, which in 1951 was revived and retitled "It's All in the Game. " Consult Carole C. Waldrup, The Vice Presidents (McFarland, 1996) 172-177 and American National Biography, Vol 6 (1999) 249-250.

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