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About George Wingfield
George Wingfield was a Nevada cattleman and gambler who became a financier, investor and one of the state's most powerful economic and political figures during the period from 1909 to 1932. With future senator George S. Nixon as his mentor after he settled in Winnemucca in 1899, and fellow gambler John Hennessy as his partner in the mining boomtown of Tonopah after 1901, Wingfield rose from faro-dealer to become richest man in Nevada in less than five years.
Everything about George Wingfield →- Occupation
- banker, businessperson, politician
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 16, 1876
- Died
- December 24, 1959, December 25, 1959