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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Charles Fairbanks Biography FAIRBANKS, Charles Warren (1852-[1918]). An American lawyer and public official, born near Unionville Centre, Ohio, a descendant of one of the first settlers of Dedham, Mass. He graduated at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1872, was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1874, managed W. Q. Gresham's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 1888, and in 1892 and 1898 was chairman of the Republican State Convention. In 1897 he was elected to the United States Senate from Indiana, and in 1898 he was appointed a member of the British-American Joint High Commission for adjusting Canadian questions, serving as chairman of the commissioners for the United States. In 1903 he was reelected to the United States Senate, and in 1904 he was elected vice president of the United States upon the Republican ticket. A prominent layman in the Methodist Episcopal church, he was elected a trustee of the Wesleyan University. |