Missouri Key Professionals

           In September, 1906, the Missouri State Board of Agriculture sponsored a good roads convention in Chillicothe to consider the question of a better system for road
           construction and maintenance in the State. Attendance included 200 appointed delegates and 4,000 to 5,000 people. During the convention three miles of of improved
           dirt road were constructed for a prize of $200. At the conclusion of the convention, among several resolutions adopted, the first was to recommend to the State
           legislature the creation of the office of State Highway Engineer under the jurisdiction of the State Board of Agriculture. As a result of that convention the following
           engineers or other professionals were a few that figured prominently in the formative years of Missouri's state highway system leading to the creation of U.S. Highway 66.

           Curtis Hill Missouri's First State Highway Engineer, 1907-1913

           Frank W. Buffum Highway Commissioner 1913-1917

           Frederick D. Gardner Governor of Missouri 1917 - 1921

           Alexander W. Graham State Highway Engineer 1917-1922

           Harry Hawes Author of Hawes Road Law of 1917

           J.G. Morgan Co-author McCullough-Morgan Law of 1919

           Theodore Gary Highway Commissioner 1921 - 1926

           B.H. Piepmeier State Highway Engineer 1922-1927

           Rolen J. Windrow Consulting Engineer 1922 - circa 1927

           Leif J. Sverdrup Engineer of Bridges 1924 - 1928

           John M. Malang Highway Superintendent 1924 - 1928

           Thomas H. Cutler State Highway Engineer 1927 - 1936

           Norman R. Sack Engineer of Bridges 1928 - 1942

           Carl W. Brown State Highway Engineer 1936 - 1951

           Rex Whitton State Highway Engineer, July 23, 1951 - February 10, 1961; FHWA Administrator, February 10, 1961 - December 30, 1966


           Reference
           A History of the Missouri State Highway Department David C. Austin and Thomas J. Gubbels, Historic Preservation Section,
                                                                                                                                                   Design Division, Missouri Department of Transportation