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Fairfax Harrison

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 13, 2024  by Wehwalt (talk) 17:26, 1 February 2024 (UTC)



Fairfax Harrison (March 13, 1869 – February 2, 1938) was an American lawyer and businessman. He became a lawyer for the Southern Railway Company in 1896, and by 1906 he was the company's vice-president of finance. In 1913 he was elected president of Southern; under his leadership, the company expanded to an 8000 mi network across 13 states, its greatest extent until the 1950s. Following the United States's entry into World War I, the federal government took control of the railroads, running them through the United States Railroad Administration, on which Harrison served. After the war, Harrison worked to improve the railroad's public relations, upgrade the locomotive stock by introducing more powerful engines, increase the company's amount of railroad track and extend the area serviced by the railway. Harrison struggled to keep the railroad afloat during the Great Depression, but by 1936 Southern was once again profitable. Harrison retired in 1937 and died three months later.
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 * Promoted: September 27, 2011
 * Reasons for nomination: 155th birthday. TFA re-run from 2013
 * Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 18:17, 1 January 2024 (UTC)