George Hearst

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

Hearst was born in September 1820 in Sullivan. During and after the California Gold Rush, he worked as a prospector and storekeeper. As CEO of Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co., he acquired shares in mines, which should make the company subsequently lead to the largest mining company in the United States. On 29 April 1863 he married the 18- year-old Phoebe Apperson. From the compound showed a son, the future media tycoon William Randolph Hearst. George Hearst himself, his son later grew into a newspaper business and became the owner of the San Francisco Examiner.

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

After the death of U.S. Senator John Franklin Miller on March 8, 1886 Hearst pushed for this in the Congress after and had this mandate on 23 March held until August 4, 1886 before him victorious in the election Abram P. Williams replaced. But he was regularly re-elected in 1887 in the Office of the Democrats and belonged to the Senate March 4, 1887 until his death on 28 February 1891. His grave is located in the Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma.