CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS
Charles Warren Fairbanks, of Indianapolis, was born on a farm near Unionville Center, Union County, Ohio. May 11, 1852; was educated in the common schools of the neighborhood and at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, graduating from that institution in 1872 in the classical course; was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Ohio in 1874; removed to Indianapolis in the same year, where he has since practiced his profession; never held public office prior to his election to the Senate; was elected a trustee of the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1885; was chairman of the Indiana Republican State conventions in 1892 and 1895; was unanimously chosen as the nominee of the Republican caucus for United States Senator in the Indiana legislature in January, 1893, and subsequently received his entire party vote in the legislature, but was defeated by David Turpie, Democrat; was a delegate at large to the Republican national convention at St. Louis in 1896, and was temporary chairman of the convention; was appointed a member of the United States and British Joint High Commission which met in Quebec in 1898, for the adjustment of Canadian questions, and was chairman of the United States high commissioners; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, January 20, 1897, by a majority of 21 on joint ballot, over Daniel W. Voorhees and Leroy Templeton, and took his seat March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.
