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Thomas Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaughnessy.
American-Canadian railway administrator (1853-1923)
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About Thomas Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaughnessy
Thomas George Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaughnessy, was an American-Canadian railway administrator who rose from modest beginnings as a clerk and bookkeeper for the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad to become the president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, serving in that capacity from 1899 to 1918. In recognition of his stewardship of the CPR and its contributions to the war effort during the Great War, Shaughnessy was elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 1 January 1916 as Baron Shaughnessy, of the City of Montreal in the Dominion of Canada and of Ashford in the County of Limerick.
Everything about Thomas Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaughnessy →- Occupation
- businessperson, politician, railway executive, council member
- Position held
- member of the House of Lords, president
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 6, 1853, February 6, 1853
- Died
- December 10, 1923