Virginia Dawes
Toronto Daily Star, April 1 1932
Charles G. Dawes (1865-1951) was the Vice-President of the United States from 1926 to 1929, when Calvin Coolidge was President. He was also the United States ambassador to Great Britain from 1929 to 1931. He was co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1925 for the Dawes Plan, which governed World War I reparations.
I found very little on Virginia Dawes. There was a photograph from 1932 of Dawes's boyfriend at the time, a man named James Martin. That relationship didn't last, as there is a New York Times article from 1936 announcing that Ms. Dawes had been betrothed to Richard T. Cragg. The article also stated that she was Charles Dawes's foster daughter.
I also found an entry in the Internet Movie Database for an actress named Virginia Dawes who appeared in a movie in 1938, but my guess is that this was someone else.
Created October 20, 2025.