Charles W. Fairbanks

Charles Fairbanks (1904)

Charles Warren Fairbanks (* 11. May 1852 in Union County , Ohio , † 4. June 1918 in Indianapolis , Indiana ) was an American politician of the Republican Party and after winning the presidential election in 1904 from 1905 to 1909 the 26th Vice President of the United States under Theodore Roosevelt . Previously belonged from 1896 to 1904 as a Senator of the Congress on. A renewed candidacy for vice president as running mate of Charles Hughes failed in the election in 1916 narrowly on incumbent Woodrow Wilson . The city of Fairbanks , Alaska was named after him in 1903.

Fairbanks' parents were Methodists and staunch abolitionists who welcomed escaped slaves to their farm. Fairbanks graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1872 . He then worked as a reporter for an uncle-owned press agency and attended law school in Cleveland in the evenings . Fairbanks was admitted to the bar in 1874 and married Cornelia Cole Fairbanks , with whom he had five children. He then worked as a lawyer in Indianapolis for 23 years, specializing in railroad law. In addition, Fairbanks was the majority owner of the Indianapolis News newspaper and used this to campaign for Republican issues. In 1893 he ran for the Senate without success. Three years later he had success with this venture and befriended the future President William McKinley . At the Republican National Convention in 1896 Fairbanks gave the keynote speech.

literature

• Jules Witcover: The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power. Smithsonian Books, Washington, D. C. 2014, ISBN 978-1-5883-4471-7 , pp. 239-245 (= 26. Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana ).

Web links

Commons : Charles Fairbanks  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography in the US Senate (en.)
• Charles W. Fairbanks in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)

• Charles W. Fairbanks in the database of Find a Grave (English)