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.

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C. Wesley 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 (1902-12-14)December 14, 1902 Oskaloosa, Kansas, U.S.
Died	April 9, 1976(1976-04-09) (aged 73) Oskaloosa, Kansas, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Ruth Patrick
Children	Pat (son)
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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 published the smalltown weekly Oskaloosa Independent for more than a century. Davis Publications currently owns The Oskaloosa Independent.^[2]

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.^[3] 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.^[4]