Vice President under Theodore Roosevelt March 4, 1905 until March 3, 1909
FAIRBANKS, 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;
was 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.- -Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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