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Author: W. C. Wolfe, Editor

  HEARST, William Randolph: Publisher of international repute, and former
Congressman from the Eleventh District of New York- elected in 1903 and serving
until 1907, was born in San Francisco, son of the late United State Senator
George Hearst and Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and attended Harvard University from
1882 to 1885. Leaving Harvard, he became editor, and later proprietor of the San
Francisco Examiner. Among the Hearst chain of newspapers and magazines are the
following: San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Call and Post: Oakland
Post-Enquirer; Los Angeles Examiner; Los Angeles Evening Herald; Seattle
Post-Intelligencer; Fort Worth Record; San Antonio Light: Chicago Herald and
Examiner; Chicago Evening American; Wisconsin News; Milwaukee Sentinel and
Sunday Telegraph: Detroit Times; Atlanta Georgian-American: Washington Times;
Washington Herald; Baltimore American; Baltimore News; New York American; New
York Evening Journal; New York Daily Mirror: Rochester Journal-American;
Syracuse Telegram-American; Albany Times-Union; Boston American; Boston
Advertiser. Magazines: Good Housekeeping; Motor: Motor Boating; Hearst's
International combined with Cosmopolitan; Harper's Bazaar; Smart Set; Nash's
Magazine (London). In 1905 was Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York City
on Municipal Ownership ticket, and again in 1909 on the Independence League
ticket. Was candidate for governorship of New York in 1906, running on the
Independence League and Democratic tickets. Married Millicent Wilson, daughter
of George H. Wilson, of New York. April 28th, 1903. They reside at 137 Riverside
Drive, New York City.

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Men of California
Western Personalities and their Affiliations
With Club Memberships and Civic Associations

ILLUSTRATED RECORD OF MEN
With Biographs of their Activities

Published by
WESTERN PRESS REPORTER, INC.
San Francisco - Los Angeles


Copyright, 1925, by
W. C. Wolfe, Managing Editor
In Collaboration with Assistants


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