C. Wesley Roberts
American political activist
About C. Wesley Roberts
Lived 1902 – 1976 (aged 73). C. Wesley Roberts was an American.
Charles Wesley Roberts (December 14, 1902 – April 9, 1976) was a Kansas businessman who was Chairman of the Republican National Committee for four months in 1953 under Dwight D. Eisenhower.
C. Wesley Roberts (or Wes Roberts) was born in Oskaloosa, Kansas, where he died, the son of Daisy Marian (née Needham) and Francis Henry "Frank" Roberts. The Roberts family published the smalltown weekly Oskaloosa Independent for more than a century. Davis Publications currently owns The Oskaloosa Independent.
He was the father of U.S. Senator Pat Roberts.
Alvin Scott McCoy of The Kansas City Star won a Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for local reporting for a series of articles that drove Roberts to resign his RNC chairmanship. Roberts was accused of collecting a $10,000 commission on the sale of a hospital to the State of Kansas which the state already owned.
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Who was C. Wesley Roberts?
American political activist (1902-1976)
When was C. Wesley Roberts born?
C. Wesley Roberts was born on 14 December 1902 in Oskaloosa.
When did C. Wesley Roberts die?
C. Wesley Roberts died on 9 April 1976 in Oskaloosa.
What nationality was C. Wesley Roberts?
C. Wesley Roberts was American.
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