Fairbanks, Charles Warren. Vice-president of the United States. Born on a farm near Unionville Center, Union County, Ohio, May 11, 1852. Graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, 1872. Admitted to Ohio bar 1874, and established practice at Indianapolis. Was Republican caucus nominee for United States senator, 1893, but defeated by David Turpie, Democrat. Fairbanks was appointed member of Joint High British-American Commission in 1898, and chairman of American Commissioners. Elected United States senator from Indiana in 1897, and re-elected in 1903. Vice-president 1905-1909; again nominated by Republicans in 1916. Died 1918.

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