The same logic may apply to re-naming Stanford, depending on which part of Leland Stanford's life one considers. See his inaugural address as CA governor, decrying "a degraded and distinct people" exercising "a deleterious influence upon the superior race" http://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/08-Stanford.html …https://twitter.com/elizabeth_joh/status/1039309897119064064 …
because Leland Jr. died of typhoid as a teenager on a trip to Florence, Italy and then his parents woke up one morning soon after and decided that, "The children of California shall be our children."
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Even if they did glorify Leland Jr. to an excessive degree (I think his body traveled in state around the world for months?), and Leland Jr. himself didn't do anything to earn the honor -- there's still the fact Jane Stanford was co-founder and its de-facto leader...
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like the time they used federal loans to finance the Central, and then Southern Pacific railroad monopoly, *never* fully paid the loans back to the US govt and then used the proceeds to finance philanthropy, which resulted in a Supreme Court case...https://books.google.com/books?id=Pob9IGTGnQcC&lpg=PA260&ots=WdeR-vxgKy&dq=United%20States%20v.%20Stanford%2C%20161%20U.S.%20412%20(1896)&pg=PA30#v=onepage&q=stanford&f=false …
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