Leland Stanford Born: 9-Mar-1824 Birthplace: Watervliet, NY Died: 21-Jun-1893 Location of death: Palo Alto, CA Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Business, Politician Party Affiliation: Republican Nationality: United States Executive summary: Founder of Stanford University Father: Josiah Stanford Mother: Elizabeth Phillips Stanford Brother: Josiah Stanford (older) Brother: Charles Stanford (d. 1885) Brother: Thomas Welton Stanford (younger) Wife: Jane Eliza Lathrop (b. 25-Aug-1828, m. 30-Sep-1850, d. 28-Feb-1905 murder) Son: Leland Stanford, Jr. (b. 14-May-1868, d. 13-Mar-1884, typhoid fever)
High School: Clinton Liberal Institute, Clinton, NY Law School: Cazenovia Seminary, Cazenovia, NY Law School: Albany, NY Administrator: Founder, Stanford University
US Senator, California (4-Mar-1885 to 21-Jun-1893, his death) Governor of California (1861-63) Southern Pacific President (1885-90)
Central Pacific President (1863)
Freemasonry
Is the subject of books:
Leland Stanford: Man of Many Careers, 1971, BY: Norman Tutorow
Leland Stanford, 1967, BY: Edwin Palmer Hoyt
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