[1] Fairchild was a lawyer in Lufkin, Texas, and married Marguerite Gibson Shearer on August 8, 1906.

[3] In the 1950s, Marguerite owned a farm east of the Angelina County Airport that she likely inherited from Fairchild.

[1] On January 18, 1974, Marguerite died and she is buried at Garden of Memories Cemetery in Lufkin.

He continued to serve district 10 of the Texas House of Representatives until January 11, 1921, when he was succeeded by John Wesley Laird.

First, he was sworn to represent to serve district 13 of the Texas Senate on January 11, 1921, succeeding Edgar Earnest Witt, and continued to serve district 13 until January 13, 1925, when he was succeeded by William Robert Poage.

Due to redistricting, he was sworn in on January 13, 1925, to represent district 3 of the Texas Senate succeeding Henry Lewis Darwin.