Horace Fairbanks

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36^th Governor of Vermont
Horace Fairbanks

In office 1876 – 1878
Lieutenant	Redfield Proctor
Preceded by	Asahel Peck
Succeeded by	Redfield Proctor

Born	21 March 1820(1820-03-21) Barnet, Vermont
Died	17 March 1888 (aged 67) New York
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Mary E. Taylor
Profession	industrialist / politician

Horace Fairbanks (21 March 1820-17 March 1888) was Governor of Vermont from 1876 to 1878.

He was born in Barnet, Vermont, the third of nine children of Erastus Fairbanks (who had been a Republican Governor of Vermont) and his wife Lois Crossman. He was educated in the county schools and Phillips Andover Academy. He became confidential clerk of E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. at age twenty, eventually becoming partner and then president. He was manufacturer of the world’s first platform scale.^[1] He promoted the construction of a railway line from Portland to Ogdensburg via the White Mountain Notch, and became president of the Vermont division of the railroad, as well as president of the First National Bank of St. Johnsbury, Vermont.

He married Mary E. Taylor on 9 August 1840. They had three children.

In 1871 he presented to St. Johnsbury the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, incorporating a free public library containing 8,000 volumes and an art gallery. He was a trustee of the University of Vermont and Andover Seminary.

He was elected Governor in 1876, serving a two-year term.

Fairbanks died in New York.

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