question: Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co. was headed by which American businessman and Senator?
answer: George Hearst
context: Title: William Randolph Hearst Jr.
  Passage: William Randolph Hearst Jr. (January 27, 1908 – May 14, 1993) was an American businessman and newspaper publisher.  He was the second son of the publisher William Randolph Hearst.  He became editor-in-chief of Hearst Newspapers after the death of his father in 1951.  He won a Pulitzer Prize for his interview with Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, and associated commentaries in 1955.
  Title: Michael J. Kowalski
  Passage: Michael J. Kowalski (born 1952) is an American businessman and the interim CEO of Tiffany & Co.  He was the CEO of Tiffany & Co. for 16 years, from February 1999 until March 31, 2015, remaining a non-executive chairman.  He became the Chairman of the Board in January 2003.  He joined Tiffany in 1983 as Director of Financial Planning.  As the company continues to look for a new CEO after the resignation of Kowalski’s successor Frederic Cumenal in February 2017, Kowalski was appointed interim CEO.
  Title: James H. McBride
  Passage: James Haggin McBride (1814 – March 1864) was an American businessman, lawyer, banker, judge, legislator, and soldier.  He served as a Confederate Missouri militia general during the American Civil War, later dying in the conflict from pneumonia in 1864 after being appointed a Colonel in the Confederate States Army, in which he was too ill to actively serve.
  Title: Anaconda Copper Mine (Montana)
  Passage: The Anaconda Copper Mine was a large copper mine in Butte, Montana.  It was bought in 1881 by Marcus Daly from Michael Hickey.  Hickey was a prospector and Union Civil War veteran.  He named his claim the Anaconda Mine after reading Horace Greeley's Civil War account of how Ulysses S. Grant's forces had surrounded Robert E. Lee's forces "like an anaconda".  Daly developed the Anaconda Mine and smelter operation in partnership with George Hearst, father of William Randolph Hearst, James Ben Ali Haggin and Lloyd Tevis of San Francisco.
  Title: William Randolph Hearst
  Passage: William Randolph Hearst Sr. ( ; April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American businessman, politician, and newspaper publisher who built the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company Hearst Communications and whose flamboyant methods of yellow journalism influenced the nation's popular media by emphasizing sensationalism and human interest stories.  Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887 after being given control of "The San Francisco Examiner" by his wealthy father.  Moving to New York City, he acquired "The New York Journal" and fought a bitter circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer's "New York World" that sold papers by giant headlines over lurid stories featuring crime, corruption, graphics, sex, and innuendo.  Acquiring more newspapers, Hearst created a chain that numbered nearly thirty papers in major American cities at its peak.  He later expanded to magazines, creating the largest newspaper and magazine business in the world.
  Title: Earl Brian
  Passage: Earl Winfrey Brian, Jr. (born 1942) is an American businessman who served as Director of California's Department of Health Care Services, and then as Secretary of California's Agency for Health and Welfare under Governor Ronald Reagan.  Following an unsuccessful run for the U. S. Senate in 1974, Brian headed several technology based firms during the 1970s and 80s.  In 1991 however, Infotechnology, the venture capital firm he headed, filed for bankruptcy.  Brian was later charged with conspiring to cover up the firm's financial difficulties and sentenced to four years in prison.
  Title: Raymond E. Joslin
  Passage: Raymond E. Joslin (c. 1936 – August 2, 2013) was an American businessman and cable executive.  Joslin served as Group Head of Hearst Entertainment & Syndication of The Hearst Corporation since 1989 and served as its President.  He served as Senior Vice President of The Hearst Corporation.  He was the CEO of CAD Sciences LLC.  Joslin attended Trinity College and is a member of the cable hall of fame.
  Title: George Hearst
  Passage: George Hearst (September 3, 1820 – February 28, 1891) was a wealthy American businessman and politician.  He was a United States Senator and the father of newspaperman William Randolph Hearst.
  Title: John W. Kieckhefer
  Passage: John W. Kieckhefer (1887–1970) was an American businessman.  He took over Enterprise Box & Lumber Company, which was a family-run business started by his grandfather, Charles (Carl) Kieckefer and later run by his father William Kieckhefer.  When he became the company's president, he changed the name to Kieckhefer Container Company.  The company pioneered in the use of fibre shipping containers, including the paper milk carton.  Kieckhefer purchased majority control of the Eddy Paper Company of Chicago, Illinois, in 1927.  The main offices of Kieckhefer-Eddy were on the 24th floor of the Palmolive Building in Chicago.  In 1957, through an exchange of stock, the Kieckhefer holdings were merged with the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company of Tacoma, Washington.  The Kieckhefer Container Co. was moved to Camden, New Jersey, in about 1950.  The Milwaukee, Wisconsin operations of the Eddy Paper Co. were closed in 1952.
  Title: Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co.
  Passage: Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co., a company started in California in the 1850s and headed by San Francisco lawyer James Ben Ali Haggin with Lloyd Tevis and George Hearst, grew to be the largest private firm of mine-owners in the United States.  Hearst himself acquired the reputation of arguably being one of the most expert prospector and judge of mining property on the Pacific coast, and contributed to the development of the modern processes of quartz mining.
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