Fairbanks, Charles Warren (1852-1918), served as vice president of the United States from 1905 to 1909 under President Theodore Roosevelt. Fairbanks hoped to be the Republican presidential candidate in 1908. But he was too conservative for Roosevelt, and the president helped William Howard Taft win the nomination. Fairbanks again was the Republican vice presidential candidate in 1916. However, Fairbanks and presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes lost the 1916 election to the Democratic candidates, Woodrow Wilson and his running mate, Thomas R. Marshall.