Everything about Alan Stephenson Boyd totally explained
Alan Stephenson Boyd (born
July 20,
1922) was the first
United States Secretary of Transportation, appointed by
Lyndon Johnson.
Early life
Boyd was born on
July 20 1922, in
Jacksonville, Florida. He served in the
United States Army Air Corps during
World War II. He graduated from law school at the
University of Virginia in 1948. He practiced law in Florida, and was on a commission exploring the regulation of the transportation industry.
Later life
He and his wife Flavil had one son, Mark Boyd. He has two grandchildren, Heather and Alan Boyd. The latter was named after him.
Alan S. Boyd retired to Florida and later moved to
Edmonds, Washington.
Public service
He was appointed to the
Civil Aeronautics Board in 1959 by
Dwight Eisenhower and promoted to chairman by
John F. Kennedy. He helped the airline industry by standardizing fare reductions, and by approving government subsidies to encourage airline service for smaller cities. He was appointed undersecretary of commerce for transportation in 1965 by
Lyndon Johnson. He was unpopular with labor leaders when he advocated reducing government restrictions on the maritime industry, and when he denounced
featherbedding by railroad workers. Boyd was part of a committee that lobbied for the creation of the
United States Department of Transportation, bringing together many government agencies related to the transportation industry.
Boyd became the first
Secretary of Transportation in November of 1966. In that capacity he worked on a huge variety of areas including airports, the air traffic control system, automobile safety, driver education, alcoholism, and the highway beautification program (a pet project of first lady
Lady Bird Johnson). One of his sources of power was control over spending on the interstate highways. He was unsuccessful in trying to encourage passenger train service.
Private industry
When the
Richard M. Nixon administration took power, Boyd left the government and became the president of the
Illinois Central Railroad, a position he held from 1969 to 1972. The government investigated the potential conflict of interest because the railroad received aid from Boyd's department before he resigned, but no wrongdoing was found. Boyd was later the president of
Amtrak until
June 20 1982,
and the president of
Airbus Industries. In 1979 he became the chairman of Warner Blue & Mahan, a
Washington D.C. based consulting firm working on new technology ventures.
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