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Men of 1914 — D (1915)

In 1872 he was admitted to the Ohio bar and began the practice of law in Canton, Stark County, Ohio, where he was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1886. In 1889 he was appointed United States district judge for the northern district of Ohio by President Harrison, which position he declined. In April, 1897, he was appointed assistant secretary of state by President McKinley, and in April, 1898, was made secretary of state, which position he resigned to accept the chairmanship of the commission which negotiated the treaty of peace with Spain at the close of the Spanish-American War.
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Men of 1914 — D (1915)

He began insurance work in 1884 as a clerk in the office of the Keystone Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of which his father was secretary, and succeeded his father as secretary three years later. He organised the Standard Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia in 1892, becoming secretary, and retired from the company in 1804 to organize the Manton Mutual Fire Insurance Company, becoming its secretary and being elected president, treasurer, and director in 1903.
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Men of 1914 — D (1915)

In 1902 he established the Central Trust Company of Illinois, of which he has ever since been president, and he is also a director of other banks of Chicago. Mr. Dawes is author of a volume on The Banking System of the United States. Mr. Dawes is a member of the Union League, Chicago, Hamilton, Evanston, Evanston Country, Glen View and Evans-ton Golf Clubs. Mr. Dawes married at Cincinnati, Ohio, June 24, 1889, Cora D. Blymyer, and of that union there are two children : Rufus Fearing Dawes (now deceased) , and Carolyn Dawes.
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