There were many engineers involved. At the end of the project there were difficult problems. The President of the US ordered my great uncle Mr. Gaillard of South Carolina to complete the Panama canal and this is now known as the Gaillard cut.
John Findley Wallace but he was later fired and a month later John Frank Stevens
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George Goethals
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William gorgas
The US encouraged the separation of Panama from Nicaragua, of which it was previously a part.
The great French engineer supervised the building of the Suez canal. He tried but abandoned the Panama canal.
The great French engineer supervised the building of the suez canal. He tried but abandoned the Panama canal.
Construction
Health measures during the construction of the Panama Canal happened in 1904.
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not at the time
France started the construction of the Panama Canal but failed.
After ten years of construction, the Panama Canal was completed in 1914.
That engineer was Ferdinande de Lesseps.
If the question is what President oversaw the construction of the Panama Canal, it would be Theodore Roosevelt.
Ferdinand de Lesseps