Charles S. Dewey

Charles Schuveldt Dewey ( born November 10, 1880 in Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio; † December 27, 1980 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1941 and 1945 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

During his childhood, Charles was Dewey to Chicago, where he attended the public schools. After he graduated from the St. Paul 's School in Concord (New Hampshire). Subsequently, he studied until 1904 at Yale University. Between 1905 and 1917 Dewey worked in Chicago in the real estate industry. During the First World War he served in the years 1917 to 1919 as an officer in the U.S. Navy. Between 1920 and 1924 he was vice president of a Chicago-based company. From 1924 to 1927 he served as Head of Department in the U.S. Treasury. In the years 1926 and 1927, Dewey was also treasurer of the American Red Cross. From 1927 to 1930 he was financial adviser to the Polish government. He was also a director of the Bank Polski. In 1931, he returned to Chicago, where he worked in the banking industry. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1938 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In the congressional elections of 1940, Dewey was but then in the ninth constituency of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat James McAndrews on January 3, 1941. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1945 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of World War II. In 1944 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Charles Dewey returned to the banking industry. Between 1948 and 1952 he worked for the Joint Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation. From 1957 to 1961 he headed the Red Cross in the Federal District District of Columbia. He died on December 27, 1980 in the Federal Capital Washington at the age of 100 years and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.