George Ulysses Young (February 10, 1867 – November 26, 1926) was an American businessman and politician.

Active initially in journalism, he redirected his business interests to the expansion of railroads and the promotion of mining.

Born to John Alexander and Elizabeth (Wilson) Young on February 10, 1867, in Hamburg, Clark County, Indiana.

[2] After being admitted to the Kansas bar when he was 21, he began a successful legal practice, winning eighteen cases.

[3] In Arizona, Young became a bookkeeper for a company building a railroad line between Ashfork and Phoenix.

[4] In another business venture, Young joined with Buckey O'Neill and became an organizer and promoter for the Grand Canyon Railway.

[6] Young joined an American Railway Union strike in 1904 and never returned to work for the railroads.

He was also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias, and the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

In Goldfield, Arizona, later renamed Youngberg, Arizona, Young was the president and general manager of Young Mines Company, Ltd.. Young Mines Company Ltd. became the claimant of the multiple Mammoth Lode claim's,[7] otherwise referred to as The Mammoth Mines,[8] which are depicted on several Bureau of Land Management sheets as connected mineral surveys.

Young's cattle ranching prospects for the Derby lands were as just as much a part of the ground as his mining promotions.

Both were well known throughout the Thumb Butte District, where present day Highland Park is centered.

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Young sat as a director on the Phoenix Real Estate Board, which like the Madizelle Mining Company, also operated from the building block at 403-404 Fleming in downtown Phoenix, present site of the Wells Fargo tower.

Young's mining ventures were well known throughout the Thumb Butte District, where present day Highland Park is centered.

Young, which was incorporated into land patent documents, to the later Madizelle Mining Co., George U.

This was the main delivery system for the hauling of heavy equipment to the mining activity in the area.

[5] While in office, Young's primary concern was dealing with Arizona's 1910 constitutional convention.

[16][17] This action angered Governor Richard Elihu Sloan, who was vacationing in California at the time.

Sloan commented on the issue, saying "This is one reason why I spend so much time at home, I am almost afraid to get out of the territory for this sort of things has happened before.

[18] With statehood coming, Young was a Republican candidate for governor in 1911, but lost in the primary to Edmund W.

[20] He did fairly well for a third-party candidate, garnering over 10% of the vote, but lost to incumbent Democrat George W. P. Hunt and Republican nominee Ralph Cameron/ Young ran for reelection as mayor in 1916 but was defeated.

[18] During the 1924 United States Presidential Election, Young was a Robert M. La Follette supporter.