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He became the fourth president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (1874–1880), which became the largest publicly traded corporation in the world and received much criticism for his conduct in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and as a "robber baron."
Apr 16, 2009 · Railroad baron Tom Scott's failed effort to manipulate the 1876 election reveals dramatic changes in governance that affects us to the present day. Scott and his rival Collins P. Huntingon invented the modern corporate lobby and turned congress into a place where corporations compete.
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Mar 4, 2024 · Chapter 6: Tom Scott and the Pennsylvania Railroad in the Civil War. Part 1 of 2. By Anton Chaitkin, copyright Anton Chaitkin. This chapter introduces Philadelphia railroad executives -- political nationalists – who organized the Union’s military logistics, and who went on to create the nation’s steel and oil industries.
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Mar 11, 2024 · Mar 11, 2024. ∙ Paid. 1. Share. Chapter 6: Tom Scott and the Pennsylvania Railroad in the Civil War. Part 2 of 2. By Anton Chaitkin, copyright Anton Chaitkin. Fort Sumter was surrendered to Confederate forces on April 13 after 33 hours of shelling. The U.S. at the time had only about 15,000 troops, and only 3,000 of them in the east where needed.
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Dec 10, 2022 · Ingratiating himself to his supervisor and future president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Tom Scott, Carnegie worked his way into a position of management for the company and subsequently began to invest some of his earnings, with Scott’s guidance.
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Dec 11, 2015 · To enforce robber baron will, massive military force was deployed after Thomas A. Scott, CEO of the largest corporation in the world, the Pennsylvania Railroad, rigged the 1876 presidential election so a Republican president would be the one to remove federal troops occupying the South and use them to break strikes in the rest of the country ...
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His infamous "Tapeworm Railroad," a name coined by his political enemies - was a fiasco that ate up $700,000 of state funding before work on it was abandoned. Pennsylvania Railroad President Thomas A. Scott, circa 1876.
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