Mark Hopkins Jr.

Mark Hopkins Jr.
Photo by I. W. Taber
Born(1814-09-03)September 3, 1814
DiedMarch 29, 1878(1878-03-29) (aged 64)
Resting placeSacramento, California
OccupationRailroad investor & treasurer
EmployerCentral Pacific Railroad
Known forFirst transcontinental railroad
Political partyWhig, Free Soil & Republican
SpouseMary Frances Sherwood Hopkins
Parent(s)Mark Hopkins (1779–1828)
Anastasia Lukens Kellogg (1780–1837)

Mark Hopkins Jr. (September 3, 1814 March 29, 1878) was an American railroad executive. He was one of four principal investors that funded Theodore D. Judah's idea of building a railway over the Sierra Nevada from Sacramento, California, to Promontory, Utah. They formed the Central Pacific Railroad along with Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Collis Huntington in 1861.