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John W. Garrett (diplomat)
American diplomat
John W. Garrett | |
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| 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 Tool Garrett May 19, &#;() Baltimore, Colony, 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 President Garrett Alice Dickerson Whitridge |
| Residence | Evergreen |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
John Ditch Garrett (May 19, &#; June
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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 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 equipm