Benjamin Hall Wright (October 10 1770 – August 24 1842) was an American civil engineer who served as Chief Engineer of the Erie Canal and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. In 1969 the American Society of Civil Engineers declared him the Father of American Civil Engineering.
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