The election of 1885 brought him into the United States Congress. I am senator. Stanford became a very wealthy man because of his political maneuverings. What did Leland Stanford do for California? A ...

A new biography from Bay Area journalist Roland De Wolk says Leland Stanford was a ruthless capitalist ... the process (before going on to be a U.S. Senator). And those are just a few of the ...

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 partner in a wholesale ...

The origins of Stanford are shrouded in myths which go back to the great railroad man and Senator Leland Stanford himself. The story goes that the Senator gathered a few of his millions together ...

Leland Stanford attempted to buy the area now known ... Stanford, who was serving as a U.S. Senator in Washington, D.C., at the time, was furious upon learning of the usurping of his cherished ...