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About William Fairfax
William Fairfax was a British-born customs official, judge, planter and politician who spent much of his life in the colony of Virginia. Fairfax served as Collector of Customs in Barbados, Chief Justice and governor of the Bahamas; and Customs agent in Marblehead, Massachusetts, before being reassigned to the Colony of Virginia.
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- politician
- Position held
- Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1691
- Died
- 1757