History of Unionville Center, (Union County) Ohio United States of America

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Charles Warren Fairbanks, senator, was born near Unionville Center, Union county, Ohio, May 11, 1852; son of Loresten M. and Mary A. (Smith) Fairbanks; and grandson of Luther Fairbanks. His father was a farmer and the son attended the public schools and was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university in the classical course in 1872. He was agent for the associated press at Pittsburg, Pa., and later at Cleveland, Ohio; and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Ohio in 1874. He was married in 1874 to Cornelia, daughter of Judge P. B. Cole of Marysville, Ohio, and in the same year removed to Indianapolis, where he practised his profession until 1897, when he was elected a U.S. senator. He never held public office prior to his election to the senate. He was chairman of the Indiana Republican state conventions in 1892 and 1898; was unanimously chosen as the nominee of the Republican caucus for U.S. senator in the Indiana legislature in January, 1893, and subsequently received his entire party vote in the legislature, but at that time the Republicans were in the minority. He was a delegate-at-large to the Republican national convention at St. Louis in 1896, and was temporary chairman of the convention. He took his seat in the U.S. senate, March 4, 1897, and was chairman of the committee on immigration and a member of the claims, census, geological survey and public buildings and grounds committees. He was appointed a member of the Joint high commission which met in Quebec in 1898 for the adjustment of Canadian questions, and was made chairman of the United States high commissioners.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Unionville Center, (Union County) Ohio

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