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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Indiana / USCharles Warren FAIRBANKS
(1852-1918)
Senate Years of Service:
1897-1905Party: RepublicanFAIRBANKS, Charles Warren,
a Senator from Indiana and a Vice President of the United States;
born near Unionville Center, Union County, Ohio, May 11, 1852;
attended the common schools and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan
University, Delaware, Ohio, in 1872; agent of the Associated Press
in Pittsburgh, Pa., and in Cleveland, Ohio; studied law; admitted
to the Ohio bar in 1874; moved to Indianapolis, Ind., the same year
and commenced practice; unsuccessful candidate for election to the
United States Senate in 1893; appointed a member of the United
States and British Joint High Commission which met in Quebec in
1898 for the adjustment of Canadian questions; elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate in 1896; reelected in 1902
and served from March 4, 1897, until his resignation March 3, 1905,
having been elected Vice President of the United States; chairman,
Committee on Immigration (Fifty-fifth Congress), Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds (Fifty-sixth through Fifty-eighth
Congresses); elected Vice President of the United States in 1904 on
the Republican ticket with Theodore Roosevelt and served from March
4, 1905, to March 3, 1909; unsuccessful candidate for Vice
President of the United States on the Republican ticket with
Charles E. Hughes for President in 1916; resumed the practice of
law in Indianapolis, Ind., where he died June 4, 1918; interment in
Crown Hill Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Gould, Lewis L., ed. ”Charles Warren Fairbanks
and the Republican National Convention of 1900: A Memoir.”
Indiana Magazine of History 77 (December 1981): 358-72;
Madison, James H. “Charles Warren Fairbanks and Indiana
Republicanism.” In Gentlemen from Indiana: National Party
Candidates, 1836-1940, edited by Ralph D. Gray, pp. 171-88.
Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1977.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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