Horace Fairbanks

Horace Fairbanks ( born March 21, 1820 Barnet, Caledonia County, Vermont, † March 17, 1888 in New York City ) was an American politician and 1876-1878 Governor of the State of Vermont.

Early years and career

Horace Fairbanks was a son of Erastus Fairbanks, who had been 1852-1861 twice governor of Vermont. Horace attended the common schools and Phillips Academy. Then he went into the family-owned company E & T Fairbanks & Company, which was founded by his father and his uncle. The company introduced her scales and measuring instruments and was then the largest employer in Vermont. Soon Horace rose in the company to the head of the accounting department. At the same time he was still active in other industries. He was president of the First National Bank of St. Johnsbury and a local railway company. Politically, he was a member of the then dominant in Vermont Republican Party. In 1869, Fairbanks was elected to the State Senate. Due to health problems but he could not take this mandate.

Governor of Vermont and other CV

In 1876 he was elected governor of his state. Horace Fairbanks took up his new post on October 5, 1876. In his two-year term of office, the Agriculture Committee was founded and created the legal basis for the approval of medical practitioners. At the end of his tenure, Fairbanks devoted again to his private business. He was also curator of the University of Vermont. Horace Fairbanks was also evident as a philanthropist a name. In 1871 he founded the town of St. Johnsbury a public library with about 8,000 volumes. Later, additional donations of this kind followed in his honor named after him a museum. Horace Fairbanks was married to Mary E. Taylor since 1840. The couple had three children.