Leland Stanford
American politician and railroad tycoon (1824-1893) · United States · Politicians · Died at 69
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Something wrong?Amasa Leland Stanford was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party politician from Watervliet, New York. He served as the eighth governor of California from 1862 to 1863 and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1885 until his death in 1893.
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Pacific Railroad Bond, City, and County of San Francisco, 1865
Leland Stanford and the officers of the CPRR in 1870
Muybridge's The Horse in Motion, 1878
Stanford c. 1860s
Stanford in 1890
Stanford left big shoes to fill according to this caricature of Governor Henry Markham (charged with appointing his successor) published in The Wasp, July 29, 1893
The Stanford residence in Palo Alto, 1888Awards
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Amasa Leland Stanford was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party politician from Watervliet, New York. He served as the eighth governor of California from 1862 to 1863 and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1885 until his death in 1893. Stanford and his wife Jane founded Stanford University, named after their late son.
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