Charles S. Dewey
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Charles Schuveldt Dewey (November 10, 1880 - December 27, 1980) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born in Cadiz, Ohio, Dewey moved in infancy to Chicago, Illinois. He attended the public schools and St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. He was graduated from Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, in 1904. He engaged in the real estate business in Chicago, Illinois from 1905 to 1917. He served in the United States Navy 1917-1919 and was honorably discharged with the rank of senior lieutenant. He served as vice president of a trust company in Chicago, Illinois from 1920 to 1924. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of fiscal affairs 1924-1927. National treasurer of American National Red Cross in 1926 and 1927. He served as financial adviser to the Polish Government and as director of the Bank of Poland 1927-1930. He returned to Chicago in 1931 and resumed banking. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress.
Dewey was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1945). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress. He resumed the banking business.
His son, A. Peter Dewey, was accidentally shot and killed by Viet Minh in 1945, making him (arguably) the first person killed in the Vietnam War.
In April 1948 was appointed agent general of the Joint Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation and served until June 1952. He served as chairman of the District of Columbia Chapter of the American Red Cross from 1957 to 1961. Resided in Washington, D.C., until his death December 27, 1980. He was interred in Arlington National Cemetery.
