Inventory of the Francis C. Turner Papers 1929-1997

Resource Type

ArchivalResource

Display Entry

Inventory of the Francis C. Turner Papers TAMU ARCH 00126., 1929-1997

Title

Inventory of the Francis C. Turner Papers 1929-1997

Resource Link

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tamucush/00126/00126-P.html

Abstract

Francis C. Turner (1908-1999) was born in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from Texas A & M University in 1929 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. He worked as a highway engineer for the Bureau of Public Roads, earning a professional degree in civil engineering from Texas A & M University in 1940. Turner was selected to work on the Alaska Highway Project in 1943. From 1946 until 1949 Turner helped restore roads and organize a highway department in the Philippines, serving as coordinator of the Philippine Rehabilitation Program by 1949. Upon his return to the United States, he became Assistant to Bureau of Public Roads Chief Thomas H. McDonald. In 1954 Turner was appointed Executive Secretary to President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Advisory Committee on a National Highway Program, or Clay Committee, (so-called after its Chair, General Lucius D. Clay). Turner's work on this committee is widely acknowledged as being instrumental in the passage of the highway legislation that established and provided for the funding of a national interstate highway system. Turner continued to work for the Bureau of Public Roads and its successor, the Federal Highway Administration, for the rest of his career, and ultimately headed these organizations. In 1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Turner as Director of the Bureau of Public Roads, an occasion Johnson may have commemorated by giving Turner an inscribed copy of his book . Later, President Richard M. Nixon appointed Turner as Federal Highway Administrator (1969). Although Turner retired from this post in 1972, he remained active in the service of the highway program for the rest of his life. Influential in transportation circles, Turner was a member of an elite circle of transportation experts known as the and was also in constant demand as a consultant by agencies such as the Transportation Research Board and the International Road Federation. Perpetually researching issues relating to the transportation field, Turner remained a champion of highway causes until his death in a Goldsboro, North Carolina hospice facility in 1999.Series 1. through Series 4. of the Francis C. Turner Papers include highway engineering reports written for the Bureau of Public Roads, Clay Committee papers dating from the 1950s hearings on the development of a national interstate highway program, and speeches, publications, correspondence, and research notes generated by his career as a federal highway official. The bulk of the Turner's post-retirement and consulting work materials are found in Series 5 through Series 9, including maps, photographs, research notes and manuscript drafts for a three-year study he and Harmer E. Davis conducted for the International Road Federation. The study, (1977), compares transportation needs in urban areas in fourteen countries, including the United States. Another large portion of the papers found in Series 7. contains papers related to Turner's membership in various associations. Throughout his lifetime Turner remained devoted to groups such as the Highway Users Federation and the American Association of State Highway Officials. Correspondence, speeches, and conference notes related to these associations reflect his continued involvement in the transportation field almost until the year of his death. The Papers also include correspondence, transcripts, and drafts of several reports recording the history of the interstate highway, a subject for which Turner was a popular informant. The most extensive project is a study by the Public Works Historical Society, commissioned by the American Public Works Association and the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials. A More Beautiful America A Comparative Analysis of Urban Transportation Requirements No Name Group,

Languages

eng,

Holding Repository

Cushing Memorial Library,

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6639982

Related Entities

There are 103 Entities related to this resource.

United States. Department of Transportation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6330p3d (corporateBody)

The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It is headed by the secretary of transportation, who reports directly to the president of the United States and is a member of the president's Cabinet. Prior to the creation of the Department of Transportation, its functions were administered by the under secretary of commerce for transportation. In 1965, Najeeb Halaby, administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency (p...

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65c0t4w (person)

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environm...

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6776605 (person)

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66793pq (person)

Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was born on August 27, 1908 at Stonewall, Texas. He was the first child of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson, and had three sisters and a brother: Rebekah, Josefa, Sam Houston, and Lucia. In 1913, the Johnson family moved to nearby Johnson City, named for Lyndon''s forebears, and Lyndon entered first grade. On May 24, 1924 he graduated from Johnson City High School. He decided to forego higher education and moved to California with a few ...

Texas A&M University

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t836q2 (corporateBody)

The history of Texas A&M University, the first public institution of higher education in Texas, began in 1871, when the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas was established as a land-grant college by the Texas Legislature. Classes began on October 4, 1876. Although Texas A&M was originally scheduled to be established under the Texas Constitution as a branch of the yet-to-be-created University of Texas, subsequent acts of the Texas Legislature never gave the university any authority over ...

International Federation of Municipal Engineers

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pb0w24 (corporateBody)

Diesel Engine Supervisor

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vr9krg (corporateBody)

Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kv38qk (corporateBody)

Public Works Historical Society

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz0bwq (corporateBody)

The Road Gang.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nj17vq (corporateBody)

Bishop, Cook, Percell & Reynolds

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6947bcq (corporateBody)

Inter-agency Committee

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62682c9 (corporateBody)

Road Gang

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nx62dh (corporateBody)

TRB

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j8411x (corporateBody)

Highways for Survival Committee

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w8341w (corporateBody)

TRIP

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fp7qc1 (corporateBody)

Turner, Francis Cutler, 1908-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66m7s1h (person)

Francis C. Turner (1908-1999) was born in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from Texas A & M University in 1929 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. Tireless and renowned champion of the interstate highway system. Served as: coordinator of the Philippine Rehabilitation Program in 1949; Assistant to Bureau of Public Roads Chief Thomas H. McDonald; Executive Secretary to Dwight D. Eisenhower's Advisory Committee on a National Highway Program, or Clay Committee; Director of the Bureau of P...

Advisory Committee on Highway Policy)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63s7b2c (corporateBody)

Federal Highway Administration

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68j4279 (corporateBody)

Virginia Highway Conference

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bh968k (corporateBody)

Mertz, Lee.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w675376f (person)

AGC

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b44cgn (corporateBody)

FHWA

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t60b82 (corporateBody)

merican Association of State Highway Transportation Officials

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64s4c4v (corporateBody)

A Project for Political Action

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pm708g (corporateBody)

DES

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jk047f (corporateBody)

Transportation Alternative Group

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m20pk0 (corporateBody)

Highway Users Federation for Safety and Mobility

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gb91mh (corporateBody)

U.S. Senate

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65g58zz (corporateBody)

American Trucking Association

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6px33kb (corporateBody)

International Bridge, Tunnel & Turnpike Association

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64624jq (corporateBody)

BPR inc

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62q1kdg (corporateBody)

Davis, Harmer Elmer, 1905-...

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63n4967 (person)

Biography Harmer E. Davis, born July 11, 1905 in New York was a professor of Civil Engineering (eventually becoming professor emeritus) and founding director of the Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering (ITTE), now known as the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), at the University of California, Berkeley. He attended U.C. Berkeley and received a B.S. and subsequent M.S. in Civil Engineering. Upon completing the M.S. degre...

National Association of Motor Bus Operators (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s24fn2 (corporateBody)

Clay Committee

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61429v6 (corporateBody)

AASHTO

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gp4rgz (corporateBody)

Eisenhower

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67r5ffp (person)

Association pour la prévention de la pollution atmosphérique France

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m783j8 (corporateBody)

Harmer E. Davis

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mr1k7j (person)

Massachusetts Motor Transportation Association

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nf2jb2 (corporateBody)

ATA

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d58v7s (corporateBody)

National Good Roads Association

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bh195f (corporateBody)

ASCE

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6296rtp (corporateBody)

National Highway Program

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dd4k41 (corporateBody)

IVHS America

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vj8r6x (corporateBody)

United States. President. Advisory Committee on a National Highway Program

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64s4c3d (corporateBody)

IRF

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vz70rr (corporateBody)

Clean Air Act

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t02xc4 (corporateBody)

Metro History Project

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6px33g0 (corporateBody)

Vulcan Materials Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sz0tfc (corporateBody)

American Automobile Association (AAA)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wx1f1d (corporateBody)

Mertz History Project

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67z2w96 (corporateBody)

United States. Bureau of Public Roads

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69d19xz (corporateBody)

Turner's

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6210mf2 (person)

Port of New York Authority.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6158hx6 (corporateBody)

Point of entry for many people migrating to the United States. From the description of Passanger list, 1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122425097 ...

National Highway Users Conference

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mw9b38 (corporateBody)

American Road & Transportation Builders Association

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67f19rf (corporateBody)

No Name Group

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62d5g6z (corporateBody)

Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jx285d (corporateBody)

The Chamber of Commerce of the United States traces its origins to an April 22, 1912, conference of commercial and trade organizations called by President William Howard Taft. The idea was to create an organization that could represent the interests of the business community in Washington. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America held its first annual meeting on January 21, 1913. During the First World War the Chamber organized more than 400 War Service Co...

D.O.T.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kb9rnk (corporateBody)

Philippine Rehabilitation Program

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h86zv9 (corporateBody)

Eno Transportation Foundation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m49cz9 (corporateBody)

National Grange

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65f2kfg (corporateBody)

Council of State Governments.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60k647r (corporateBody)

Highway Trust Fund

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6px33fj (corporateBody)

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Meeting

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61c6bzw (corporateBody)

International Road Federation.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67m632m (corporateBody)

HUF

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w54dj8 (corporateBody)

Harmer Davis

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n17p74 (person)

McDonald, Thomas H. (Thomas Harris), b. 1881

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n91v4b (person)

The Road Information Program

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pm70bc (corporateBody)

Highway User's Federation for Safety and Mobility

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bh9674 (corporateBody)

National Association of Traffic Engineers

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69t883k (corporateBody)

National Society of Professional Engineers

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r251mq (corporateBody)

CERF

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kz209j (corporateBody)

APWA/AASHTO Project

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bt59d6 (corporateBody)

U.S.D.O.T.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dd4k24 (corporateBody)

National Sand and Gravel Association

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gk624x (corporateBody)

United States. Federal Highway Administration

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wh74bv (corporateBody)

Until 1960, the federal government had responsibility for roads and bridges in Alaska: the Alaska Road Commission, under the War Dept., from 1905-1932, and the Interior Dept. from 1932 to 1956 when it was absorbed by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads. In 1960, after statehood, Alaska State Department of Highways was organized and assumed responsibility for the State's highway program. From the description of U.S. Federal Highway Administration photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1950-...

American Public Works Association

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tb53hk (corporateBody)

ACHP

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zf4m56 (corporateBody)

Pyke Johnson

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bt58f7 (person)

Clay, Lucius D. (Lucius Dubignon), 1897-1978

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hx1bqq (person)

Lucius DuBignon Clay (1897-1978) was born in Marietta, Georgia, the son of U.S. Senator Alexander Stephen and Sarah (Francis) Clay. After graduating from West Point in 1918, he commissioned in the Army Corps of Engineers. From 1937 to 1938, he was chief engineer under General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines. During his tenure with the War Department General Staff, he made brigadier general in March 1942 and major general nine months later. From 1944 to 1945, he served as deputy director for...

Civil Engineering Research Foundation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63h16v0 (corporateBody)

Boston Society of Civil Engineers

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t18v2w (corporateBody)

ARTBA

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6821kvm (corporateBody)

President's Advisory Committee

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pt2xxb (corporateBody)

National Highway Institute (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h86zzn (corporateBody)

Associated General Contractors of America

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65772wx (corporateBody)

The Associated General Contractors of America was founded in 1918 as a trade organization dedicated furthering the interests of the construction industry, and maintaining dialogue between contractors, property owners, and government. From the description of Associated General Contractors of America ledger, 1945-1955. (California State Library). WorldCat record id: 773723382 ...

Inventory of the Francis C. Turner Papers 1929-1997

Related Entities

Social Networks and Archival Context

Sponsors

Hosts