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   May 11, 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 expense.

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   Apr 28, 2022 · 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 expense.

   • Location: Lee, Massachusetts
   • Spouse: Heloise Hannah Durant

   • Place Of Birth: Massachusetts
   • Birth Date: February 6, 1820

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   Dr. T. C. Durant. Thomas Clark Durant was born on February 6, 1820 in Lee, Massachusetts. He studied medicine at Albany Medical College where he graduated cum laude in 1840. He served briefly as an assistant professor of surgery then later quit that profession and became a director of his uncle's grain exporting company in New York City.

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   • 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 expense.

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   • Doctor Thomas C. Durant (Doc Durant), one of the men who forged the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s, is a colorful historical figure. Newspaper accounts and diaries left behind by men who knew him describe him as ferocious looking, tall, dark, and patrician. Although he had trained as a doctor, he eventually turned to business.

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   • The Durants were a wealthy and distinguished western Massachusetts family. Bowing to the wishes of his parents, Thomas Durant graduated from Albany Medical College in upstate New York in 1840. But he never practiced medicine, choosing instead to devote his career to business.

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   • He spent his latter days living quietly on his property in upstate New York, where he died on October 5, 1885. Thomas Clark Durant, (February 6, 1820 – October 5, 1885) was an American financier and railroad promoter.

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   Feb 6, 2020 · Doctor Thomas C. Durant (Doc Durant), one of the men who forged the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s, is a colorful historical figure. Newspaper accounts and diaries left behind by men who knew him describe him as ferocious looking, tall, dark, and patrician.

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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...

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   Thomas Durant was a born manipulator. Educated in medicine, Durant kept the honorific "Doctor" in front of his name but abandoned the pursuit for business, the only enterprise that could...

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   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.