FAIRBANKS, CHARLES WARREN Vice President of the United States, 1905-09, was born in Union ville Center, Ohio, on May 11, 1852. He was graduated at Ohio Wesleyan in 1872, studied law in Cleveland, and began practice in Indianapolis, Ind. He was the chief power in the Republican Party in his state from 1896 until his death. He was temporary chairman and "keynote" speaker of the convention which nom inated McKinley, and as U.S. Senator from Indiana, 1897-1905, he had a prominent position in the upper house. A conservative and representing a doubtful state, he was the political choice as running mate to Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. In 1912 Fairbanks was chairman of the platform committee of the Republican Na tional Convention and supported Taft instead of Roosevelt. He was again his party's nominee for Vice President on the unsuccess ful ticket of 1916, headed by Hughes.