By Dan O'Donnell
Jun 3, 2021
Vice Presidents by their nature are rather anonymous and easily forgotten. Richard Mentor Johnson, George Dallas, and Schuyler Colfax aren't exactly household names. But sometimes, extraordinary men are elevated to this rather ordinary office and do extraordinary things. They advise, they craft policy, and sometimes...they make music.
This is the forgotten history of the Vice Presidential Pop Star.
Charles Dawes was a man of many interests and talents; something of a microcosm of America itself. And in a very real way, Dawes was America itself. A descendant of both Edward Doty, a passenger on the Mayflower, and William Dawes who accompanied Paul Revere on his midnight ride, Dawes from an early age knew that he wanted to live up to his famous family name.