Answer:FERDINAND DE LESSEPS,
IT WAS ONLY PARTLY COMPLETED DUE TO WIDE SCALE POLITICAL CORRUPTION AND LOSS OF LIVES.
Explanation: The first attempt to make a canal was the Panama canal which was sponsored by France, and handled by Ferdinand de Lesseps, it failed because of political corruption and loss of lives due to the under-estimated cost by the managers of the projects.
The loss of lives, coupled with the underestimation of the cost of the project with wide scale corruption led to a partly completed project.
