Thomas A. Scott, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American railroad executive and businessperson
Date of Birth: 28-Dec-1823
Place of Birth: Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 21-May-1881
Profession: businessperson
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Thomas A. Scott
- Thomas Alexander Scott (December 28, 1823 – May 21, 1881) was an American businessman, railroad executive, and industrialist.
- President Abraham Lincoln in 1861 appointed him the U.S.
- Assistant Secretary of War, and during the American Civil War railroads under his leadership played a major role in the war effort.
- 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 Railway Strike of 1877 and as a "robber baron." Scott helped negotiate the Republican Party's Compromise of 1877 with the Democratic Party; it settled the disputed presidential election of 1876 in favor of Rutherford B.
- Hayes in exchange for the federal government pulling out its military forces from the South and ending the Reconstruction era.
- In his final years, Scott made large donations to the University of Pennsylvania.
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