Charles W. Fairbanks

Charles W. Fairbanks
Fairbanks, c. 1900s
26th Vice President of the United States
In office March 4, 1905 – March 4, 1909
President	Theodore Roosevelt
Preceded by	Theodore Roosevelt
Succeeded by	James S. Sherman
United States Senator from Indiana
In office March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1905
Preceded by	Daniel W. Voorhees
Succeeded by	James A. Hemenway
Personal details
Born	Charles Warren Fairbanks (1852-05-11)May 11, 1852 Unionville Center, Ohio, U.S.
Died	June 4, 1918(1918-06-04) (aged 66) Indianapolis Indiana, U.S.
Resting place	Crown Hill Cemetery
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Cornelia Cole ​ ​ (m. 1874; died 1913)​
Children	5
Education	Ohio Wesleyan University (BA, MA)
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Charles Warren Fairbanks (May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918) was an American politician who served as the 26th vice president of the United States under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1905 to 1909. A member of the Republican Party, Fairbanks was previously a senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905.

Born in Unionville Center, Ohio, Fairbanks moved to Indianapolis after graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University. He became an attorney and railroad financier, working under railroad magnate Jay Gould. Fairbanks delivered the keynote address at the 1896 Republican National Convention and won election to the Senate the following year.^[1] In the Senate, he became an advisor to President William McKinley and served on a commission that helped settle the Alaska boundary dispute.

The 1904 Republican National Convention selected Fairbanks as the running mate for President Theodore Roosevelt. As vice president, Fairbanks worked against Roosevelt's progressive policies. Fairbanks unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination at the 1908 Republican National Convention and backed William Howard Taft in 1912 against Roosevelt. Fairbanks sought the presidential nomination at the 1916 Republican National Convention, but was instead selected as the vice presidential nominee, with former Associate Justice and Governor Charles Evans Hughes, and would have been the third vice president to serve under different presidents (after George Clinton and John C. Calhoun), and the only one non-consecutively. The Hughes-Fairbanks ticket, however, narrowly lost to the Democratic ticket of President Woodrow Wilson and Vice President Thomas R. Marshall.