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Thomas C. Durant. Thomas Clark Durant (February 6, 1820 – October 5, 1885) was an American physician, businessman, and financier. He was vice-president of the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) in 1869 when it met with the Central Pacific railroad at Promontory Summit in Utah Territory.
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Thomas Clark Durant. Courtesy: Adirondack Museum. Thomas Durant was a born manipulator. Educated in medicine, Durant kept the honorific "Doctor" in front of his name but abandoned the...
11 de may. de 2018 · DURANT, THOMAS CLARK. As a financier and an executive of the Union Pacific Railroad in the early 1860s Dr. Thomas C. Durant (1820 – 1885) was instrumental in building the first railway spanning the western United States. He ended his career, however, in scandal and financial disaster, having greatly enriched himself at the public's ...
27 de ene. de 2003 · Thomas C. Durant, as always, slipped the noose. Even as he was testifying, he was buying up more than 700,000 acres of land in upstate New York, developing a new railroad.
The construction of the UP was led by Thomas C. Durant, vice president and general manager of Union Pacific, president of the Credit Mobilier, and a self-serving financial strategist. By the end of 1865, the UP had spent more than $500,000 and laid only 40 miles of track, or as one newspaper said, "two streaks of rust across the Nebraska prairie."
A portrait of Thomas C. Durant of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Courtesy of the New York Public Library. The Union Pacific Railroad Company quickly laid track and racked up miles—and government money. Under the leadership of Thomas Durant, they altered the original transcontinental route to add more miles for profit.
A railroad promoter and contractor, Thomas Durant's importance to the Great Plains lies in his controlling of route choice and construction as vice president of the Union Pacific Railroad.
