He graduated from Greenville's Parker High School, where he played baseball, basketball, and football and served as president of the student body.

[2] Prior to being elected to the South Carolina General Assembly, Fair served for six years on Greenville County Council.

Like approximately 40% of South Carolina state senators, Fair elected to take a yearly lifelong payout of $32,390 in deferred pay from the General Assembly Retirement System rather than his $10,400 salary.

[11][12] During a state senate debate over a proposed bill to ban abortions past 20 weeks, Fair said that according to Hitler "because you're a Jew, you had no right to live.

[15] The following month, Fair unsuccessfully introduced legislation that would have prohibited Common Core educational standards from being imposed on South Carolina public schools.