He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

On March 29, 1928, a radio show was broadcast from Pickford's bungalow, featuring Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, Norma Talmadge, Gloria Swanson, John Barrymore, D. W. Griffith and Dolores del Rio, among others, to speak on the The Dodge Brothers Hour to prove they could meet the challenge of talking movies.

Both she and Fairbanks had little time off from producing and acting in their films.

These deaths, her divorce from Fairbanks, and the end of silent films left Pickford deeply depressed.

Pickford gradually became a recluse, remaining almost entirely at Pickfair, allowing visits only from Lillian Gish, her stepson Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and a few select others.

In Fairbanks, Alaska, the length of the frost-free season has increased from 60 – 90 days in the early twentieth century to about 120 days a century later.

Roosevelt was far from pleased with the idea of Fairbanks for vice-president.

With solid support from New York, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, Fairbanks was easily placed on the 1904 Republican ticket in order to appease the Old Guard.

* Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice President from Indiana

* Charles W. Fairbanks, former Vice President of the United States from Indiana

Tone and Crawford appeared together in Today We Live ( 1933 ) and were immediately drawn to each other, although Crawford was hesitant about entering into another romance so soon after her split from Fairbanks.

In experimental work at University of Alaska Fairbanks, a 1000-litre digested using psychotropics harvested from " mud from a frozen lake in Alaska " has produced 200 – 300 liters of methane per day, about 20 – 30 % of the output from dig esters in warmer climates.

Students from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and scientists of the Alaska Volcano Observatory traveled to Kamchatka in the spring to monitor the eruption.

The script was adapted by Jack Cunningham from a story by Fairbanks, who used his middle names " Elton Thomas " as a pseudonym.

The poem inspired a 1939 adventure film of the same name from RKO Radio Pictures starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Fontaine, and Sam Jaffe in the title role.

The film stars Mary Pickford, Madlaine Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Gladys Fairbanks ( returning from the play ) and Frank McGlynn, Sr ..

The refuge is administered from offices in Fairbanks.

One provision required the new capital to be at least from Anchorage and Fairbanks, to prevent either city from having undue influence ; in the end Juneau remained the capital.

Charles Warren Fairbanks ( May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918 ) was an American politician who served as a Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 and the 26th Vice President of the United States from 1905 to 1909.

While there, Fairbanks was co-editor of the school newspaper with Cornelia Cole, whom he married after both graduated from the school.

* Midnight Sun Run, a 10 K race in Fairbanks, Alaska

The Yukon Quest 1, 000-mile International Sled Dog Race, or simply Yukon Quest, is a sled dog race run every February between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Whitehorse, Yukon.

The four proposed a thousand-mile sled dog race from Fairbanks, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon, to celebrate the Klondike Gold Rush-era mail and transportation routes between the two.

After the inaugural race, organizers improved the marking of the trail for the first contest held in the Whitehorse – Fairbanks direction.

The 2010 race started in Fairbanks on February 6, 2010, and the early start date was kept for the 2011 competition.

In even-numbered years, the race starts in Fairbanks and ends in Whitehorse.

When the race runs from Fairbanks to Whitehorse, the Braeburn checkpoint is the site of a mandatory eight-hour stop to ensure the health of mushers ' dogs before the final stage.

The inaugural race also included a checkpoint at Chena Hot Springs Resort near Fairbanks.

During the 2008 race, competitors started in temperatures in Fairbanks and then faced winds of on the trail, resulting in severe wind chills.

The trip continued to Fairbanks ( July 15 ) where it was decided ( July 16 ) that the President and his wife would return to Seward ( July 17 ) via the railroad.

As far north as Fairbanks, Alaska, a reviewer wrote that, if the film had been shown to the people of Europe before the war started there would have been no war :"' Civilization ' is worth $ 1. 50 today, tomorrow, or at any time.

Marysville native Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, wife of U. S. Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, would serve as President of the Daughters of the American Revolution in the early 20th century.

Marysville native Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, wife of U. S. Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, would serve as the President of the Daughters of the American Revolution in the early 20th century.

Stevens had been with Charles Clasby's law firm for six months when Bob McNeally, a Democrat appointed as U. S. Attorney for Fairbanks during the Truman administration, informed U. S. District Judge Harry Pratt that he would be resigning effective August 15, 1953, having already delayed his resignation by several months at the request of Justice Department officials newly appointed by Eisenhower.

NBC and Fairbanks were unimpressed with all but Crusader Rabbit ( though Dudley would make his appearance, finally, 10 years later ).

To those who argued that the pipeline would irrevocably alter Alaska wilderness, proponents pointed to the overgrown remnants of the Fairbanks Gold Rush, most of which had been erased 70 years later.

The preferred route would pass through the Rocky Mountain Trench from Prince George, British Columbia to Dawson City before turning west to Fairbanks, Alaska.

In 1902 the Alaska Railroad began to be built, which would connect from Seward to Fairbanks by 1914, though Alaska still doesn't have a railroad connecting it to the lower 48 states today.

On June 23, 1931, Post and his navigator, Harold Gatty, left Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York in the Winnie Mae with a flight plan that would take them around the world, stopping at Harbour Grace, Flintshire, Hanover twice, Berlin, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, Nome where his propeller had to be repaired, Fairbanks where the propeller was replaced, Edmonton, and Cleveland before returning to Roosevelt Field.

In later interviews, Iwerks would comment that Mickey as featured in The Gallopin ' Gaucho was intended to be a swashbuckler, an adventurer modeled after Fairbanks himself.

He continued to take minor parts in films and would go onto appear alongside actors including Sean Connery, David Niven and Douglas Fairbanks Jr during his career.

Dr. Fairbanks described the effort as " somewhere between Symphonies of Sickness and Necroticism-era Carcass " and " not something you would want to put on before church.

By 1975, the Patriots drafted Steve Grogan, who would become a fixture with the club for 16 seasons, and under the leadership of coach Chuck Fairbanks, New England's offense became more run-oriented, led by Sam Cunningham.

This left Hayakawa to constantly be typecast as a villain or forbidden lover and unable to play parts that would be given to fellow white actors such as Douglas Fairbanks.

Combustible Celluloid's Jeffrey M. Anderson rated the movie, concluding " Director Allan Dwan had worked with Fairbanks on several two-reelers, and would go on to direct his last silent film, The Iron Mask ( 1929 ).

Soon after, Eva left the cabin where she had lived with her husband and moved into Room 207 of the Nordale Hotel on Fairbanks ' Second Avenue, where she would live for the rest of her life.

Douglas Fairbanks would go on to become the first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

It was sometimes quite exasperating, as the USAAF would work long hours of overtime to get the aircraft into first-class condition so that all the Russians had to do was fly them from Fairbanks to the Eastern Front.

While in San Diego, Wellman would fly to Hollywood for the weekends in his Spad fighter, using Fairbanks ' polo field in Bel Air as a landing strip.

It would be left to his heirs, however, to see this promise through to its completion following Fairbanks ' death in 1924.

From June 1908 to August 1910 the regiment was posted to Alaska to maintain the Alaskan telegraph line from Fairbanks to Nome and would be one of the last large scale presence of Army troops since the 1898 gold rush before the telegraph was replaced with a series of wireless stations.