Thomas Jenckes
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Thomas Allen Jenckes I was a United States representative from Rhode Island. Jenckes was best known for introducing a bill that created the United States Department of Justice. President Ulysses S. Gr
Thomas A Jenckes member of congress from RI
Crédit Mobilier scandal
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The Crédit Mobilier scandal was a two-part fraud conducted from 1864 to 1867 by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Crédit Mobilier of America construction company in the building of the eastern portio
Thomas Jenckes
…and it was later implemented via the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act years after Jenckes left office. Having prosecuted fraud implicated in the Credit Mobilier scandal, Jenckes' tenure was also marked by his revisions of bankruptcy law and involvement in cases related to Goodyear rubber, the Corliss steam engine, in…
Dale Creek Crossing, completed in 1868 as part of the First transcontinental railroad
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