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Thomas
C. Durant promoter of the Union Pacific railroad
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Thomas
Clark Durant (1820-1885), the Union Pacific's active vice-president and also
the mastermind behind the Credit Mobilier scheme. By the time he
jump-started the Union Pacific Railroad company, by bringing in his friends
and actually paying the first installment of their subscription, Thomas
Durant was already a veteran railroad promoter in the West. Together with
Henry Farnam, Durant had built the Michigan Southern railroad and promoted
the Chicago & Rock Island, as well as the Mississippi & Missouri, through
central Illinois an Iowa …
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