While teaching at West Point, this man was the engineering tutor of pioneering black Army officer Charles Young.
While teaching at West Point, this man was the engineering tutor of pioneering black Army officer Charles Young. He designed the Riverton Lock at Colbert Shoals and a replacement for the Spokane River bridge. This man was the chair of the Emergency Fleet Commission and then quartermaster general at the start of World War I, a post he earned after managing the housing and provisioning of thirty thousand employees on an earlier project, in which he worked alongside public health specialist William Crawford (*) Gorgas. This man led the damming of the Chagres River and the building of locks that formed Lake Gatun. He spent three years as the first governor of a new U.S. territory that was created following the end of his work as chairman for the Isthmian Commission. A structure named for this man was designed by Othmar Ammann and connects Elizabeth City across the Arthur Kill to Staten Island.For 10 points, name this engineer who led the completion of the Panama Canal.
While teaching at West Point, this man was the engineering tutor of pioneering black Army officer Charles Young.
George Washington Goethals