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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.
Amasa Leland Stanford ( 9 de março de 1824 – 21 de junho de 1893) foi um magnata e político estadunidense. Foi também fundador da Universidade de Stanford . Vida. Stanford nasceu em Watervliet em 1824, que atualmente faz parte da cidade de Colonie. Ele foi um dos oito filhos de Josiah e Elizabeth Phillips Stanford.
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.
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. (Image credit: Stanford University Archives)
5 de set. de 2016 · Para entender como Stanford se transformou no cérebro do Vale, é preciso relembrar um personagem chamado Leland Stanford, um filho de fazendeiro que se tornou empresário, político (foi governador da Califórnia) e depois ele próprio um dono de terras e criador de cavalos nos EUA.
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.
18 de mai. de 2018 · Business Leaders. Leland Stanford. Stanford, Leland. views 3,972,539 updated May 18 2018. Stanford, Leland. (1824-1893) Central Pacific Railroad. Overview. Leland Stanford combined his legal knowledge, business ability, and political influence to become one of California's leading citizens in the nineteenth century.
