C. Wesley Roberts
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.
Wes Roberts | |
|---|---|
| Chair of the Republican National Committee | |
| In office January 17, 1953 – March 27, 1953 | |
| Preceded by | Arthur Summerfield |
| Succeeded by | Leonard W. Hall |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Charles Wesley Roberts December 14, 1902 Oskaloosa, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | April 9, 1976 (aged 73) Oskaloosa, Kansas, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Ruth Patrick |
| Children | Pat (son) |
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.[1] The Roberts family has published the smalltown weekly Oskaloosa Independent for more than a century.
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.[2] 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.[3]
Footnotes
- Charles Patrick "Pat" Roberts, at rootsweb, an ancestry.com community
- 1954 Winners, Awards, The Pulitzer Prizes website
- "Republicans: Storm in Kansas". Time. March 30, 1953. Retrieved March 12, 2009.
| Party political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Arthur Summerfield |
Chair of the Republican National Committee 1953 |
Succeeded by Leonard W. Hall |