James William Dawes was a Republican Nebraska

Nebraska

Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....

 politician

Politician

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 best known as the fifth Governor

Governor of Nebraska

The Governor of Nebraska holds the "supreme executive power" of the State of Nebraska as provided by the fourth article of the Nebraska Constitution. The current Governor is Dave Heineman, a Republican, who assumed office on January 20, 2005 upon the resignation of Mike Johanns . He won a full...

 of Nebraska. He was born in McConnelsville, Ohio

Ohio

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. He was also a delegate to the state constitutional convention and a member of state senate in 1877. Dawes County, Nebraska

Dawes County, Nebraska

-National protected areas:*Nebraska National Forest *Oglala National Grassland *Pine Ridge National Recreation Area-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 9,060 people, 3,512 households, and 2,086 families residing in the county. The population density was 6 people per square mile...

 is named in his honor. He also served on the Doane College

Doane College

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 board of trustees for 37 years. Dawes was a great-grandson of William Dawes

William Dawes

William Dawes, Jr. was one of several men and a woman who alerted colonial minutemen of the approach of British army troops prior to the Battle of Lexington and Concord at the outset of the American Revolution....

, a first cousin of Rufus R. Dawes

Rufus R. Dawes

Rufus R. Dawes was a military officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War. He used the middle initial "R" but had no middle name. He was noted for his service in the famed Iron Brigade, particularly during the Battle of Gettysburg...

, and a first cousin once removed of Charles G. Dawes

Charles G. Dawes

Charles Gates Dawes was an American banker and politician who was the 30th Vice President of the United States . For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served in the First World War, was U.S...

. James Dawes married his cousin, Francis Anna Dawes, in 1871. She died in 1909. Dawes died in 1918 at the age of 74, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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Between 1885 and 1890 his portrait was painted in Omaha by artist Herbert A. Collins

Herbert A. Collins

Herbert Alexander Collins, Sr., was a Canadian-born American artist. He was known nationally in the United States as a landscape and portrait painter.-Early years:...

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