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George Randolph Hearst Sr. (April 23, 1904 – January 26, 1972) was an American heir and media executive. He was the son of media magnate William Randolph Hearst, and the vice president of the Hearst Corporation.
George Hearst (September 3, 1820 – February 28, 1891) was an American businessman, politician, and patriarch of the Hearst business dynasty. After growing up on a small farm in Missouri, he founded many mining operations, and is known for developing and expanding the Homestake Mine in the late 1870s in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
George Randolph Hearst Jr. (July 13, 1927 – June 25, 2012) [1] was an American businessman and member of the wealthy Hearst family. He served as the chairman of the board of the Hearst Corporation from 1996 through to his death in 2012, succeeding his uncle Randolph Apperson Hearst.
George Hearst was a self-made millionaire with a knack for mining that would lead to success across the American West. Born near Sullivan, Missouri, on September 3, 1820, to William and Elizabeth Collins Hearst, George was the oldest of three children.
May 6, 2019 · While one is a semi-fictitious villain whose malevolence dominates the HBO award-winning series Deadwood, the other—the real George Hearst—was an internationally recognized philanthropist and a man of proven integrity. George Hearst was broke when he struck gold for the first time in California in 1857.
The Senator died in Washington, D.C. in 1891. George Hearst was born and raised in Franklin County, Missouri in 1820. Growing up he received very little in the way of formal education but he did learn a lot about the so-called "lay of the land," particularly with regard to mining.
Jun 27, 2012 · Obituaries. George Randolph Hearst Jr. dies at 84; L.A. Herald-Examiner publisher. By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times. June 27, 2012 12 AM PT. The demise of the Hearst newspaper empire...
Her great-grandfather, George Hearst, was a Missouri farmer and prospector with a nose for minerals. He followed the lure of gold and spent years prospecting in Northern...
George Hearst, a prospector with no formal education, became a multi-millionaire as a shrewd investor in mines of the Comstock Lode. He went on to become a United States Senator and to found the building blocks for the Hearst Publishing empire.
Jun 26, 2012 · Hearst Corp. board chairman George Randolph Hearst Jr., the oldest grandson of the media titan William Randolph Hearst, died Monday in Palo Alto, Calif., due to complications from a stroke....
