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Who was an engineer who lobbied Congress to pass the Transcontinental Railroad Act but died before the railroad finished

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Theodore Judah

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Judah was an American railroad and civil engineer who lobbied Congress to pass the Transcontinental Railroad Act with the purpose of building a railroad that would link the Mississippi River Valley to the Pacific coast

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