John work garrett biography books

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John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

How John W. Garrett and the B&O Railroad he headed for twenty-six years helped to transform America by linking the nation.

Chartered in as the country’s first railroad, the legendary Baltimore and Ohio played a unique role in the nation’s great railroad drama and became the model for American railroading. John W. Garrett, who served as president of the B&O from to , ranked among the great power brokers of the time. In this gripping and well-researched account, historian Kathleen Waters Sander tells the story of the B&O’s beginning and its unprecedented plan to build a rail line from Baltimore over the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio River, considered to be the most ambitious engineering feat of its time. The B&O’s success ignited "railroad fever" and helped to catapult railroading to America’s most influential industry in the nineteenth century.

Taking the B&O helm during the railroads’ expansive growth in the s, Garrett soon turned his attention to the demands of the Civil War. Sander explains how, despite suspected Southern sympathies, Garrett became one of President Abraham Lincoln's most trusted confidantes and strategists, making the B&O available for transporting Northern troops and equipment to critical battles. T

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John W. Garrett predominant the Metropolis and River Railroad

How John W. Garrett explode the B&O Railroad stylishness headed appropriate twenty-six life helped give explanation transform U.s.a. by linking the nation.

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John W. Garrett (diplomat)

American diplomat

John W. Garrett

In office November 20, &#;– May 22,
President	Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt
Preceded by	Henry P. Fletcher
Succeeded by	Breckinridge Long
In office November 11, &#;– June 18,
President	Woodrow Wilson
Preceded by	Henry van Dyke
Succeeded by	William Phillips
In office October 11, &#;– June 18,
President	Woodrow Wilson
Preceded by	Henry van Dyke
Succeeded by	William Phillips
In office February 29, &#;– November 22,
President	William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson
Preceded by	John Ridgely Carter
Succeeded by	Frederic Jesup Stimson
In office March 30, &#;– October 21,
President	William Howard Taft
Preceded by	William W. Russell
Succeeded by	Elliott Northcott
Born	John Work Garrett May 19, &#;() Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Died	June 26, &#;() (aged&#;70) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Political party	Democrat Republican
Spouse	Alice Warder &#; &#; (m.&#;)&#;
Relations	John W. Garrett (grandfather)
Parent(s)	Thomas Harrison Garrett Alice Dickerson Whitridge
Residence	Evergreen
Alma mater	Princeton University

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