Portrait of an American: Charles G. DawesFull-length, sympathetic biography of the American lawyer and banker. |
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Rufus R. Dawes never again held public office after leaving Congress . He had strong support for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1889 , but his health had begun to fail , and the nomination went to Joseph B. Foraker .
Rufus R. Dawes never again held public office after leaving Congress . He had strong support for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1889 , but his health had begun to fail , and the nomination went to Joseph B. Foraker .
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Dawes was never in the chamber except to preside . Impatient as he was with time - wasting tactics , and although he found a way to eliminate some of them , Dawes never resorted to any of the short cuts that Garner used to speed up ...
Dawes was never in the chamber except to preside . Impatient as he was with time - wasting tactics , and although he found a way to eliminate some of them , Dawes never resorted to any of the short cuts that Garner used to speed up ...
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This is not to say that Dawes had never been criticized for anything but his supposed profanity . In fact , he had been criticized aplenty for any number of reasons . But this never troubled him . “ I never saw a man suffer long from an ...
This is not to say that Dawes had never been criticized for anything but his supposed profanity . In fact , he had been criticized aplenty for any number of reasons . But this never troubled him . “ I never saw a man suffer long from an ...
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| Title | Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes, Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Author | Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Publisher | Holt, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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