Headquartered in Newport Beach, California and founded in 1868, is the Pacific Life Insurance Company, an American business firm using a humpback whale that breaks through the surface of the ocean water. It is the corporate logo and is used in television commercial advertisements. In 1997, the company adopted the humpback whale as its symbol, reflecting the whale’s persistence, performance and strength.

As of 2019, the company employees 3,776 individuals. It was founded by former California Governor, Leland Stanford (1824-1893) in Sacramento, California. He was an American industrialist who migrated from New York to California at the time of the California Gold Rush (1848-1855). He became a successful merchant and wholesaler, continuing to build his empire.

Stanford spent one two-year term as Governor in 1861; after his election he spent eight years as a U.S. Senator from California.

As President of Central Pacific Rapiroad, and later the Southern Pacific, he had tremendous power in the region and a lasting impact on California. He is widely considered a robber baron, a derogatory metaphor of social criticism describing a person who was accused of using unscrupulous methods to get rich or expand wealth.

Over the years the original life insurance company has broadened and expanded its portfolio of products and services to meet the consumer needs of the 20th and now 21st century.

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