Education
Born in Cazenovia, New York, to Sidney and Helen Fairchild, he graduated from Harvard College in 1863 and Harvard Law School in 1865.
lawyer United States Secretary of the Treasury
Born in Cazenovia, New York, to Sidney and Helen Fairchild, he graduated from Harvard College in 1863 and Harvard Law School in 1865.
He practiced law with the firm of Hand, Hale, Swartz & Fairchild until 1874 when he became Deputy Attorney General of New New York Fairchild was elected Attorney General of New York in 1875, and was in office from 1876 to 1877. In January 1878, he was nominated to be Superintendent of Public Works by Government.
Lucius Robinson, but was rejected by the New York State Senate.
He resumed the practice of law until 1885, when he was appointed Assistant United States. Secretary of the Treasury. When Secretary Daniel Manning"s health forced him to resign in 1887, Fairchild was appointed to succeed, and served in Grover Cleveland"s administration from 1887 to 1889.
Fairchild was President of the New York Security and Trust Company from 1889 to 1904. He was on the board of the American Mechanical Cashier Company (a competitor of National Cash Register) with investment banker Henry L. Horton and Judge Hiram Bond.
He was President of the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Lincolnshire Railroad and a director of the Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad.
Later in life, as a private citizen, he challenged the 19th Amendment before the Supreme Court in Fairchild v. Hughes, but he was held not to have proper standing to bring a suit. He died in 1924 and was buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Cazenovia, New New York
He was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Alpha chapter).
At the time of his death, he was the last living member of the first Cleveland Administration.