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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioRufus DAWES
(1838-1899)
DAWES, Rufus, (father of
Vice President Charles Gates Dawes and Beman Gates Dawes), a
Representative from Ohio; born in Malta, Morgan County, Ohio, July
4, 1838; attended the common schools, and was graduated from
Marietta College, Ohio, in 1860; during the Civil War volunteered
on April 25, 1861, and was chosen captain of Company K, Sixth
Wisconsin Regiment, in the Army of the Potomac; appointed major
June 21, 1862, lieutenant colonel March 24, 1863, colonel on July
6, 1864, and brevet brigadier general March 13, 1865; after the
close of the war engaged in the wholesale lumber business in
Marietta, Ohio; elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh
Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; resumed the
wholesale lumber business in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, and
died there August 2, 1899; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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