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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—CaliforniaSTANFORD, Leland
(1824—1893)
Senate Years of Service:
1885-1893
Party:
Republican
STANFORD, 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.
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of the Life of Leland Stanford, a Character Study
. Oakland: Biobooks, 1952.
Clark, George Thomas. Leland Stanford, War Governor of California, Railroad Builder and Founder of Stanford University
. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1931.
Hoyt, Edwin Palmer. Leland Stanford
. New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1967.
Lewis, Oscar. The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and the Building of the Central Pacific
. 1938. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1981.
Tutorow, Norman E. Leland Stanford: Man of Many Careers
. Menlo Park, CA: Pacific Coast Publishers, 1971.
___. “Stanford’s Responses to Competition: Rhetoric Versus Reality.” Southern California Quarterly
52 (September 1970): 231-47.
___. The Governor: The Life and Legacy of Leland Stanford, a California Colossus
. Spokane: Arthur H. Clark, Co., 2004.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Leland Stanford (a Senator from California) Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives
. 53d Cong., 2d sess., 1893-1895. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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