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Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California. It was founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford —a railroad magnate who served as the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California —and his wife, Jane , in memory of their only child, Leland Jr . [2]
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