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He graduated from Oberlin College in 1842 and became a tutor there. He spent two years as a Christian minister in New Hampshire, and two in Boston as pastor of the Ruggles Street Baptist Church. Then , in 1848 , he became President of the Michigan Central College , later renamed Hillsdale College , and remained in this office until 1869 . During the years 1857-61 he was a Senator and Lieutenant-Governor, and made a widely-published speech on the Prohibition of Slavery in the Territories. He received a number of honours in the academic world, before, in 1876, being elected Chancellor of the University Of Nebraska . In the theological field, Fairfield, having been a Baptist pastor, became convinced that the doctrines of Baptists were without sufficient foundation for him to remain a minister in any Baptist denomination. He delineated his views in his ''Letters on Baptism'' ( 1893 ) EXTERNAL SITES
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