Biography:

Charles Warren Fairbanks was the 26th Vice President of the United States.  Fairbanks was born on May 11, 1852 in Ohio.  He became a US Senator in 1897 and served until 1905.  In 1904 he became Vice President during the Theodore Roosevelt administration.  In 1908 Roosevelt decided not to run for re-election and supported Howard Taft for the presidency.  Taft won the election.  Fairbanks ran again for Vice President in 1916 and lost.  He died on June 4, 1918 in Indiana.