1870 - 1953

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• Suffix	U.S. Representative from Ohio
  Birth	14 Jan 1870	Marietta, Washington County, Ohio
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 May 1953	Newark, Ohio
  Buried	Dawes Mausoleum, Dawes Arboretum, Newark, Ohio
  Person ID	I1191	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	26 May 2004 00:00:00
  Father	Rufus R DAWES, b. 4 Jul 1838, Malta, , Ohio
  Mother	Mary Beman GATES, b. 27 Aug 1842, Marietta, Washington, Ohio
  Family ID	F564	Group Sheet

• Notes

  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 a?d 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.