Background
Charles Warren Fairbanks was born on May 11, 1852 in Unionville Center, Union County, Ohio, United States.
Charles Warren Fairbanks was born on May 11, 1852 in Unionville Center, Union County, Ohio, United States.
Charles Warren Fairbanks graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University.
Charles Warren Fairbanks was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio in 1874. He began the practice of law in Indianapolis, Indiana, and had as his clients the industrial and transportation interests and large institutions of the surrounding country. He became a successful railroad financier with interests in both the United States and South America.
His sound-money plank was credited by many for the reelection of William McKinley in 1900.
Fairbanks was elected to the United States Senate from Indiana, and took his seat March 4, 1897. In 1898 he was chairman of the joint commission appointed to settle Canadian questions and the Alaska boundary dispute.
He was reelected to the United States Senate in 1903, resigning in 1905 to become vice-president under President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1909 he resumed the practice of law in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Fairbanks worked for the election of Benjamin Harrison as president in 1888, supported McKinley for the 1896 presidential nomination, and returned from the 1896 Republican National Convention as one of the important leaders of the Republican Party.
In 1874 Charles Warren Fairbanks married Cornelia Cole. In 1913 she died. They had five children.