Charles W. Fairbanks

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

He was married to Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, with whom he had five children.

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