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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—CaliforniaLeland STANFORD
(1824-1893)
Senate Years of Service:
1885-1893Party: RepublicanSTANFORD, Leland, a
Senator from California; born in Watervliet, N.Y., March 9, 1824;
pursued an academic course; studied law; admitted to practice in
1848; moved to Port Washington, Wis., the same year and engaged in
the practice of law; moved to California in 1852 and opened a
general store for miners first in Cold Springs and then in 1855
moved to Sacramento and engaged in mercantile pursuits on a large
scale; one of the ‘big four’ who built the Central
Pacific Railroad, serving as its president in 1863; involved in
several railroads in the West; founder of Leland Stanford Junior
University; Governor of California 1861-1863; returned to private
business; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in
1885; reelected in 1891 and served from March 4, 1885, until his
death in Palo Alto, Calif., June 21, 1893; chairman, Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds (Fiftieth through Fifty-second
Congresses); interment in a masoleum on the grounds of Stanford
University.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Hoyt, Edwin Palmer. Leland Stanford. New
York: Abelard-Schuman, 1967; Tutorow, Norman. The Governor: The
Life and Legacy of Leland Stanford, a California Colossus.
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark, Co., 2004.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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