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Contemporary Notables of the name Dewees (post 1700) +

  • Donald William Dewees Jr. (b. 1993), American Major League Baseball outfielder for the Chicago Cubs
  • Rusty DeWees (b. 1960), American actor, producer and writer, best known for his one man comedy show, The Logger
  • James Dewees (b. 1976), American musician, known for his work with Coalesce, The Get Up Kids, Reggie and the Full Effect, New Found Glory, My Chemical Romance, Leathermouth, and others
  • William Potts Dewees (1768-1841), American physician, best known for his work in obstetrics
  • Edwin Stanton Dewees (b. 1982), American mixed martial artist
  • George S. Dewees (d. 1943), American politician, Burgess of West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1937-43 2
  • Dick DeWees, American politician, Mayor of Lompoc, California, 1998-99 3
  • Maurice Dewees (b. 1891), Belgian Olympic fencer
  • Major-General Thomas Dewees Finley (1895-1984), American Commanding General XVI Corps (1945) 3


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  2. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 17) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
  3. Generals of World War II. (Retrieved 2012, February 29) Thomas Finley. Retrieved from http://generals.dk/general/Finley/Thomas_Dewees/USA.html


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