William leidesdorff biography

William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr.: California’s Black ......

William Leidesdorff

American politician

William Alexander Leidesdorff
Anonymous portrait of Leidesdorff (c. 1845)
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Died	May 18, 1848(1848-05-18) (aged 38) California
Burial place	Mission San Francisco de Asís
Title	American vice-consul for the Port of San Francisco
Term	October 1845 - July 1846
Successor	Office abolished
Parents	Wilhelm Alexander Leidesdorff (father) Anna Marie Sparks (mother)

William Alexander Leidesdorff Jr. (1810 – May 18, 1848) was an Afro-Caribbean settler in California and one of the founders of the city that became San Francisco.

A highly successful, enterprising businessman, he is thought to have been the first black millionaire in the United States.^[1]

Leidesdorff was a West Indian immigrant of Afro-Cuban, possibly Carib, Danish/Swedish and Jewish ancestry.

Leidesdorff became a United States citizen in New Orleans in 1834. He migrated to A