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Show FAIRBANKS ANSWERS CALL. Former Vice-President Succumbs to Attack of Chronic Ailment. Indianapolis. Charles Warren Fairbanks, Fair-banks, former vice-president of the United States and former United States senator from Indiana, died at his home here June 4. Death was due to In test i rial nephritis, which had been a chronic ailment with him. but was not regarded as particularly serious until recently. All members of the former vice president's family, except Major Richard Fairbanks, who is in France, were at his bedside. Mr.. Fairbanks was 00 years old, and had been nominated twice on the Republican Re-publican ticket for vice-president of the United States. After his first nomination nom-ination he was elected, but was defeated de-feated in his second race in 1916. The distinction of birth In a log cabin, which illustrious Americans of an earlier day commonly had. was also that of former Vice-President Fairbanks. Fair-banks. It is probable that he was the last of American statesmen to have been borne in one of these cabins. The one where he was born, on May 11, isr2, was at Unionville Center, Ohio. |