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1. Leland Stanford

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   Leland Stanford (1824–1893) was an American industrialist, railroad magnate, and politician who served as the eighth Governor of California (1862–1867) and later as a United States Senator (1885–1893) from California. He was one of the highly influential Big Four who dominated the western railroad industry through their ownership of the Central Pacific Railroad. Stanford is most widely remembered today as the co-founder of Stanford University, established in memory …