Charles W. Gates

They had one daughter, Edith Rebecca, and two sons, Paul Hayden and Winslow Harrison.[1] Gates purchased a mercantile in 1884 which he operated successfully while maintaining his homestead farm.[3] Since Gates was deemed a Republican with progressive ideas, in 1914 he was nominated for governor in an attempt by Republicans to heal the rift between party activists who supported President Taft's reelection in 1912 and Progressives who supported Theodore Roosevelt.During his term Vermont enacted direct primaries for nominating US House and Senate candidates, worker's compensation, a junior and senior high school system, and a public school vocational education program.[4] Gates was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican US Senate nomination in 1916, after which he returned to his Franklin County business interests.
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