- C. Wesley Roberts
Charles Wesley Roberts (
December 14 ,1902 – 1976) was aKansas businessman who wasChairman of the Republican National Committee for four months in 1953 underDwight D. Eisenhower .C. Wesley Roberts (or Wes Roberts) was born in
Oskaloosa, Kansas , where he died, to Daisy Marian Needham and Francis (“Frank”) Henry Roberts. [ [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/senators/roberts.htm 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 of "
The Kansas City Star " won aPulitzer Prize in 1954 for local reporting for a series of articles that drove Roberts to resign. [http://www.pulitzer.org/cgi-bin/year.pl?1954] 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.Footnotes
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