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Amasa Leland Stanford (Watervliet, 9 de marzo de 1824- Palo Alto, 21 de junio de 1893) fue un magnate, abogado y político estadounidense, recordado hoy por ser el fundador, junto a su esposa Jane, de la prestigiosa Universidad Stanford. 1 Emigró desde Nueva York en 1852 para participar en la Fiebre del oro de California, donde se convirtió en ...
Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824 – June 21, 1893) was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party politician from California. He served as the 8th Governor of California from 1862 to 1863 and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1885 until his death in 1893.
- Republican (from 1856)
- George Clement Perkins
9 de abr. de 2024 · Biography of Leland Stanford, U.S. senator from California and, as the president of the Central Pacific Railroad, one of the builders of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. He is one of the 19th-century entrepreneurial tycoons called robber barons. He and his wife founded Stanford University.
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A History of Stanford. Stanford University was founded in 1885 by California senator Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane, “to promote the public welfare by exercising an influence in behalf of humanity and civilization.”. A portrait of Senator Leland Stanford, Jane Lathrop Stanford, Leland Stanford Jr. taken in 1878.
Amasa Leland Stanford fue un industrial y político estadounidense. Miembro del Partido Republicano, se desempeñó como octavo gobernador de California entre...
Having served his term as governor and launched a railroad empire, Leland Stanford was savoring life as a country gentleman. Horses were his passion. For him, the racetrack demonstration would culminate five years of experiments, undertaken with photographer Eadweard Muybridge, to clinch a pet theory about equine gait.
19 de ago. de 2020 · Leland Stanford. Much like his future partners, Leland Stanford remade himself in gold rush California as a shopkeeper. In 1852, fed up with lawyering, he left the Midwest to become a...
