Barnette, hoping to attract the attention and resources of the federal government, named the new town Fairbanks in honor of Charles W. Fairbanks, a powerful senator from Indiana at the time.

One of the more remarkable landowner-tenant relationships in county history was that of U.S. Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks and African-American tenant farmer Jesse Robert Ward. Fairbanks ...

The bill was presented in 1905 to Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks — Theodore Roosevelt's No. 2 — and was from the First National Bank of Fairbanks, Alaska. The family has had it in their ...

Henry Lawton statue now located in Garfield Park. Indiana Sen. Charles W. Fairbanks served as Roosevelt’s vice president. The NCAA, headquartered in Indianapolis, annually presents the Theodore ...

His favorite was a button carrying a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt and his running mate, Charles W. Fairbanks, who won the 1904 election. The button piqued Hippler's interest in political items.