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Dawes, William 1745-1799.

American patriot who, along with Paul Revere and Samuel Prescott, rode on the night of April 18, 1775, to warn residents in the towns west of Boston, Massachusetts, that British soldiers were marching on Lexington and Concord.

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(dôz), Charles Gates 1865-1951.

Vice president of the United States (1925-1929) under Calvin Coolidge. He shared the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for proposing the Dawes Plan to reduce Germany's World War I reparations.

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