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Fair, James Graham
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1831–94, American financier, b. near Belfast, Ireland. He emigrated to America as a child, grew up on an Illinois farm, and went to the West in 1851 in search of gold. In partnership with J. W. Mackay, J. C. Flood, and William S. O’Brien, he made a large fortune from the silver of the Comstock Lode. He was U.S. Senator from Nevada from 1881 to 1887.
See O. Lewis, Silver Kings (1947).
See O. Lewis, Silver Kings (1947).
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