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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...
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    Leland Stanford Jr. (May 14, 1868 – March 13, 1884), known as Leland DeWitt Stanford until he was nine, was the only son of American industrialist and...
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    Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California. It was founded in 1885 by...
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    1885 (opened 1891), along with her husband, Leland Stanford, in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who died of typhoid fever at age 15 in...
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    The Leland Stanford Mansion, often known simply as the Stanford Mansion, is a historic mansion and California State Park in Sacramento, California, which...
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    The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB) is the student marching band representing Stanford University and its athletic teams. Billing...
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  • Starr Jordan, the first president of Stanford University, posited four propositions to Leland and Jane Stanford when accepting the post, the last of which...
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  • the last founder, Jane Stanford, in 1905 and the destruction by the 1906 earthquake. Stanford was founded by Leland Stanford, a railroad magnate, U.S...
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    Leland Stanford Winery was a winery located in the Santa Clara Valley AVA, in Fremont, California, United States. The winery was founded by Leland Stanford...
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    holds the remains of the university's namesake Leland Stanford, Jr. and his parents Leland and Jane Stanford. Once per year, the mausoleum is opened to the...
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    by Leland Stanford, the industrialist, former Governor of California, and horseman, who was interested in horse gait analysis. In 1882, Stanford had...
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    appeared on at least one list of top mascots. The Tree is a member of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB) and appears at football games...
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    Leland Stanford Scott, Sr. (September 13, 1887 - March 19, 1979) set the Amateur Athletic Union record in the pole vault at a meet between Stanford University...
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    were the greatest swindlers in U.S. history. Leland Stanford (1824–1893) – C.P.R.R. President, Stanford University founder. Collis Potter Huntington (1821–1900)...
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  • The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is a freely available online philosophy resource published and maintained by Stanford University, encompassing...
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    Leland Stanford family. A university spokesperson said "We are not aware of any genealogical relationship between Allen Stanford and Leland Stanford"...
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    by the American industrialist Leland Stanford when he founded Stanford University in memory of his son, Leland Stanford Jr. Palo Alto later expanded and...
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    between Sacramento and Omaha on May 10, 1869, when CPRR President Leland Stanford ceremonially tapped the gold "Last Spike" (later often referred to...
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    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a federally funded research and development center in...
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    Major General Leland Stanford Hobbs (February 4, 1892 – March 6, 1966) was a decorated senior United States Army officer who commanded the 30th Infantry...
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    with the major public museums at the time. For decades, Leland Stanford and his wife Jane Stanford had traveled extensively, collecting American and European...
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  • university and for the women to the south-west. The founders, Leland and Jane Stanford, rejected the idea and decided that the recently built Hôtel Kursaal...
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    influential nationwide in areas far-flung from state politics. Leland Stanford founded Stanford University in 1891. Earl Warren, later Chief Justice of the...
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    Last Spike) is the ceremonial 17.6-karat gold final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the first transcontinental railroad across the...
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  • The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB or simply GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private...
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    campus in Stanford, California, United States. It was built during the American Renaissance by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband Leland. Designed...
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  • Stanford University, Governor of California Leland Stanford Jr. (1868–1884), namesake of Stanford University, only son of Leland Stanford E. Leland Taylor...
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  • Stanford Law School (SLS) is the law school of Stanford University, a private research university near Palo Alto, California. Established in 1893, Stanford...
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    time-lapse photography. These images may have attracted the attention of Leland Stanford, who would later hire Muybridge to develop an unprecedented series...
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    of Fair Oaks. The Leland Stanford Mansion, the former residence of Leland Stanford (8th Governor of California and founder of Stanford University), serves...
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