William Leidesdorff
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william-leidesdorff-168-7334130
title:
William Leidesdorff
text:
William Alexander Leidesdorff Jr. was an African-American settler in California and one of the founders of the city that became San Francisco. A highly successful, enterprising businessman, he is thought to have been the first black millionaire in the United States. Leidesdorff was a West Indian immigrant of Afro-Cuban, possibly Carib, Danish/Swedish and Jewish ancestry. Leidesdorff became a United States citizen in New Orleans in 1834. He migrated to Alta California in 1841, then under Mexican
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
American politician
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leidesdorff
date created:
2005-08-20T15:22:52Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T22:54:40Z
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13
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