William Randolph Hearst Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Early life and education== Hearst was born in [[San Francisco]] to [[George Hearst]] on April 29 1863 , a millionaire mining engineer, owner of gold and other mines through his corporation, and his much younger wife [[Phoebe Hearst|Phoebe Apperson Hearst]], from a small town in Missouri. The elder Hearst later entered politics. He served as a [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]], first appointed for a brief period in 1886 and was then elected later that year. He served from 1887 to his death in 1891. His paternal great-grandfather was John Hearst of [[Ulster Protestant]] origin. John Hearst, with his wife and six children, migrated to America from [[Ballybay]], County Monaghan, Ireland, as part of the Cahans Exodus in 1766. The family settled in [[South Carolina]]. Their immigration to South Carolina was spurred in part by the colonial government's policy that encouraged the immigration of [[Irish Protestants]], many of Scots origin.<ref>{{cite news |title=Scots-Irish in Colonial America|first=Kyle J.|last=Betit|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/magazine/articles/iha_scotsus1.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408200359/http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/magazine/articles/iha_scotsus1.htm|archive-date=April 8, 2014|url-status=live|access-date=April 11, 2014}}</ref> The names "John Hearse" and "John Hearse Jr." appear on the council records of October 26, 1766, being credited with meriting {{convert|400|and|100|acre|km2}} of land on the Long Canes in what became Abbeville District, based upon {{convert|100|acre|km2}} to heads of household and {{convert|50|acre|km2}} for each dependent of a [[Protestantism|Protestant]] immigrant; the "Hearse" spelling of the family name was never used afterward by the family members themselves, nor any family of any size. Hearst's mother, nΓ©e Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson, was also of Scots-Irish ancestry; her family came from [[Galway]].{{sfn|Robinson|1991|p=33}} She was appointed as the first woman Regent of [[University of California, Berkeley]], donated funds to establish libraries at several universities, funded many anthropological expeditions, and founded the [[Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology]]. Hearst attended preparatory school at [[St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)|St. Paul's School]] in [[Concord, New Hampshire]]. He gained admission to [[Harvard College]], and began attending in 1885. While there, he was a member of [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]], the [[A.D. Club]], a Harvard [[Final club]], the [[Hasty Pudding Theatricals]], and the ''[[Harvard Lampoon]]'' prior to being [[Expulsion (academia)|expelled]]. His antics at Harvard ranged from sponsoring massive beer parties on [[Harvard Square]] to sending pudding pots used as [[chamber pot]]s to his professors with their images depicted within the bowls.<ref>''The American Pageant: A History of the Republic'', Thirteenth edition, Advanced Placement Edition, 2006{{page needed|date=September 2021}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page