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Woodrow Wilson: Colonel George W. Goethals, now Governor of the Panama Canal, shall be Chairman of this committee.

On the recordMay 19, 1914
Colonel George W. Goethals, now Governor of the Panama Canal, shall be Chairman of this committee.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Executive Order 1944—To Create a Committee to Formally and Officially Open the Panama Canal

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