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Leland Stanford

1824 - 1893

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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. He and his wife Jane founded Stanford University, named after their late son.Stanford was a successful merchant and wholesaler who migrated to California during the Gold Rush and built a business empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leland Stanford has received more than 1,704,333 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Leland Stanford is the 6,097th most popular politician (up from 6,306th in 2019), the 2,073rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,211th in 2019) and the 130th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Leland Stanford ranks 6,097 out of 15,577Before him are Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma, Henryk IV Probus, Rimush, 7th Dalai Lama, King Li of Zhou, and Rahmon Nabiyev. After him are Laurent Fabius, Emperor Go-Hanazono, Proclus of Constantinople, Frederick William, Duke of Courland, Max Koegel, and Sobekhotep IV.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Leland Stanford ranks 25Before him are Princess Sophie of the Netherlands, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Tokugawa Iesada, Ludwig Büchner, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, and Nana Sahib. After him are Princess Francisca of Brazil, Pierre Janssen, Peter Cornelius, Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden, Jozef Israëls, and George MacDonald. Among people deceased in 1893, Leland Stanford ranks 21Before him are George Tupou I, Baron Alexander von Bach, Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria, Alfredo Catalani, Heinrich Göbel, and P. G. T. Beauregard. After him are Abner Doubleday, Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Ferenc Erkel, Alexander Cunningham, and Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leland Stanford ranks 2,073 out of 18,182Before him are Eric Adams (1952), Johnny Winter (1944), Georgina Spelvin (1936), Walter Tevis (1928), Alan Menken (1949), and Madeleine Stowe (1958). After him are Perry Como (1912), Tommie Smith (1944), Teri Hatcher (1964), Candice Bergen (1946), Tanya Roberts (1955), and Harpo Marx (1888).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Leland Stanford ranks 130Before him are Bob Dole (1923), Wolfgang Kapp (1858), Sam Houston (1793), Paul Ryan (1970), Jack Kemp (1935), and Paul Wolfowitz (1943). After him are Curtis LeMay (1906), Ron Paul (1935), Paul P. Harris (1868), Prescott Bush (1895), Henry A. Wallace (1888), and Oliver Winchester (1810).