James Graham Fair
American politician
Died when: 63 years 25 days (756 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
James Graham Fair (December 3, 1831 – December 28, 1894) was an Irish immigrant to the United States who became a highly successful mining engineer and businessman.
His investments in silver mines in Nevada made him a millionaire, and he was one of the famous "silver kings" who became wealthy on the Comstock Lode.
Fair later became a real estate investor and railroad builder in California.In 1881, he was elected a United States Senator from Nevada.
Nearly all other major so-called robber barons were Protestants (Episcopal or Presbyterian) while Fair himself was a Roman Catholic born into poverty.
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