Fairbanks, Charles Warren (1852-1918), served as vice president of the United States from 1905 to 1909 under President Theodore Roosevelt. Fairbanks hoped to be the Republican presidential candidate in 1908. But he was too conservative for Roosevelt, and the president helped William Howard Taft win the nomination. Fairbanks again was the Republican vice presidential candidate in 1916. However, Fairbanks and presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes lost the 1916 election to the Democratic candidates, Woodrow Wilson and his running mate, Thomas R. Marshall.
Fairbanks was born on May 11, 1852, on a farm near Unionville Center, Ohio, and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University. Fairbanks became a successful railroad lawyer in Indianapolis.
Fairbanks served as a United States senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905. He headed the American delegation to the Joint High Commission that tried to settle all outstanding difficulties with Canada in 1898. He died on June 4, 1918.
