Charles Dawes is the only vice president of the United States who wrote a pop music hit. The tune came to him one day in 1911 as he sat down at the piano in his baronial mansion in Evanston ...

History buffs might know the name Charles Dawes, which probably sounds vaguely familiar but can’t-quite-place-him to the rest of us. Here’s a refresher: he was Calvin Coolidge’s vice president.

2. A VP with a Billboard Hit Portrait of Charles G. Dawes, 1910s. Library of Congress Before becoming vice president, Charles Dawes composed a piece of music, in 1911, that later became a ...