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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioBeman Gates DAWES
(1870-1953)
DAWES, Beman Gates, (son
of Rufus Dawes and brother of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes),
a Representative from Ohio; born in Marietta, Washington County,
Ohio, January 14, 1870; attended the common schools and Marietta
Academy and College, Marietta, Ohio; engaged in agricultural
pursuits and engineering and became interested in public utilities;
elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses
(March 4, 1905-March 3, 1909); after his retirement from Congress
became interested in the production of oil and the building of
electric railways; founder of the Dawes Arboretum, an endowed
institution dedicated to the education of youth; in 1914 was
elected president and chairman of the board of directors of the
Pure Oil Co., and was a member of the executive committee at time
of death; died in Newark, Ohio, May 15, 1953; interment in Dawes
Mausoleum, Dawes Arboretum, Newark, Ohio.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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