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Who proposed the building of a transcontinental railroad to congress in 1845? asa whitney theodore judah thomas durant leland stanford

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Chief promoter of a transcontinental railroad was Asa Whitney, a New York merchant active in the China trade who was obsessed with the idea of a railroad to the Pacific.

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Asa Whitney :)))))))))

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