Background
Dawson, Charles Robert was born on December 2, 1925 in Buffalo. Son of George Linton and Roberta Pierson (Snider) Dawson.
Management and planning consultant
Dawson, Charles Robert was born on December 2, 1925 in Buffalo. Son of George Linton and Roberta Pierson (Snider) Dawson.
Bachelor of Science, Syracuse University, 1948; Master of Business Administration, Syracuse University, 1948; Metropolitan Golf Association, University of Pennsylvania, 1950.
Assistant planner City Planning Commission, Buffalo, 1949-1954. Assistant city manager, planning director City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1954-1955. Assistant director planning department planning City of Dallas, 1955-1957.
Co-owner, vice president, planning consultant Tryon, Schwartz & Associates, Inc., East Aurora, New York, 1957-1961. Executive vice president Government Research Institute of Western New York, Inc., Buffalo, 1961-1968. Owner Charles R. Dawson, Community Consultant, Springville, New York, from 1961.
Planning associate Arkansas Tryon, Town Planning Consultant, Buffalo, 1953-1954. Lecturer planning Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1956-1957. Executive director Linwood-Oxford Association, Inc., Buffalo, 1979.
Trustee Village of Hamburg, New York, 1968-1970. Served with United States Army, 1944-1945. Member American Institute Certified Planners (life, charter), American Society of Consultant Planners, International City Management Association (affiliate), American Planning Association (life), American Institute Planners, DAV, Rotary, Beta Theta Pi, Beta Alpha Psi, Alpha Kappa Psi.
Married Bertha Harbury, April 3, 1947 (divorced January 1970). Children: Sharon Elizabeth Dawson Redgrave, Stephen Scott. Married Jacqueline Kincaid Lail, July 14, 1984.