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Shonts and Stevens Lead Americas Greatest Canal Project
Roosevelt approves the Isthmian Canal Commission plan as Congress backs a lock canal. Theodore P. Shonts heads the commission with final authority, while John F. Stevens serves as chief engineer. Their career histories spotlight Shonts’s bold reforms and Stevens’s railroad triumphs and mountaineering feats, underscoring the scale and drama of the canal’s construction.
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Heodore P. Shonts
Isthmian Canal Commission
Roosevelt
John F. Stevens
Commission
Congress
Mr. Shonts
Mr. Stevens
Canal Commission
Elihu Root
Henry C. Frick
Paul Morton
Navy
Theodore P. Shants
Shonts
Iowa Central
Uncle Sam
Stevens
Sabine Pass and Northwestern Railway
Minneapolis
Great Northern
Cascade Mountains
Washington State
Stevens Pass
Rock Island
West Gardiner
Crawford County
Iowa
John