George Hearst

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George Hearst

George Hearst (born September 3, 1820 in Sullivan , Missouri , † February 28, 1891 in Washington, DC ) was an American mining entrepreneur and politician ( Democratic Party ).

Hearst was born in Sullivan in September 1820. During and after the California gold rush , he worked as a prospector and shop owner. As a director of Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co. , he acquired shares in mines that would make the company the largest mining company in the United States. On April 29, 1863, he married 19-year-old Phoebe Apperson . The connection resulted in a son, the future media tycoon William Randolph Hearst . George Hearst himself, like his son later, got into the newspaper business and became the owner of the San Francisco Examiner .

From 1865 to 1866 he was a member of the California State Assembly as an MP for San Francisco . His candidacy as a Democrat for governor of California in 1882 was unsuccessful.

After the death of US Senator John Franklin Miller on March 8, 1886, Hearst succeeded him in Congress and held this mandate from March 23 to August 4, 1886, before Abram P. Williams, who was victorious in the by-election replaced. He was re-elected to office for the Democrats in 1887 and belonged to the Senate from March 4, 1887 until his death on February 28, 1891. His grave is in the Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma .

Web links

  • George Hearst in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)