Logan Waller Page

Logan Waller Page (January 10, 1870 – December 9, 1918) was an American administrator, who became the first Director of the newly created Office of Public Roads in 1905, after the US Congress passed an act that consolidated the Office of Public Inquiry and the Bureau of Chemistry.[1]

Logan Waller Page
Director of Public Roads
In office
1905 – December 9, 1918
Preceded byMartin Dodge
Succeeded byThomas Harris MacDonald
Personal details
BornJanuary 10, 1870
Richmond, Virginia
DiedDecember 9, 1918(1918-12-09) (aged 48)
Chicago, Illinois

Five years earlier, Page, a geologist with the Massachusetts State Highway Commission, accepted the position of Chief of the Division of Tests in Washington. In this post, his responsibilities included a study of road building on a national scale. As a geologist in Massachusetts, he had conducted the first extensive investigation of road-building materials in America.

Later, as Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, he began a series of investigations, which won international acclaim for the laboratories he directed.

Page introduced a scientific movement in road building that won enthusiastic national public support. He initiated "a petrographic study" of road-building materials; wrote the first comprehensive report on the elements of road-building rocks; and improved French rock-testing machines, whereby physical tests of road-building rocks became a routine procedure.

On December 9, 1918, Logan attended a meeting with Executive Committee of the American Association of State Highway Officials. Later that same day, he became ill during dinner and died a few hours later.[2]

References
  1. "Administrators". US Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved 13 May 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/18summer/06.cfm

[1] This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. [2]

  1. "Administrators - Federal Highway Administration". www.fhwa.dot.gov.
  2. "Public Roads - Federal Aid Road Act of 1916: Building The Foundation (Sidebars), Summer 1996". www.fhwa.dot.gov.
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