Charles Warren Fairbanks
Biography
Described as Floyd's cousin seven times removed. Occupation also recorded as “Lawyer specializing in new railroad laws; senator from Indiana; Vice President of the United States, 1905–1909” (History of the Guild Family). Belonged to a family branch that moved west to Ohio. Described as prosperous. Fairbanks, Alaska was named after him. The passage attributes his failure to receive Roosevelt's support for the presidency to their bitter disagreements on important issues.
Timeline
1904
Charles Warren Fairbanks elected vice president
Elected as Teddy Roosevelt's vice president the year Floyd was born.
History of the Guild Family1905 to 1909
Charles Warren Fairbanks serves as vice president
Voted vice president while serving as a senator from Indiana.
History of the Guild Family
Stories mentioning Charles
- Dad's Beginnings and Family ResemblancesThe family recounts Floyd Raymond Guild's farm birth, parents, inherited appearance, and full and half-siblings. They remember the infant death of Harold Herman and state that eight of Olive's ten children lived well into old age. The passage contains conflicting ages and dates for Olive and calls the Vosburg children both half-siblings and stepsiblings.
- A Vice President in the FamilyCharles Warren Fairbanks belonged to a branch that moved west to Ohio and became a prosperous railroad-law lawyer, Indiana senator and United States vice president under Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt. Fairbanks, Alaska was named for him. The family recounts arguments that disagreements with Roosevelt cost him support for the presidency, which instead went to William Howard Taft, and jokingly wonders whether Charles shared the family's stubbornness.
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