Bertram Dalley Tallamy
7th Administrator of Federal Highway Administration
In office
February 5, 1957 – January 20, 1961
PresidentDwight D. Eisenhower
Preceded byJohn Anthony Volpe
Succeeded byRex Marion Whitton
Superintendent of the New York State Department of Public Works
In office
1948–1955
Appointed byThomas E. Dewey
Preceded byCharles Harvey Sells
Succeeded byJohn W. Johnson
Personal details
Born(1901-12-01)December 1, 1901
Plainfield, New Jersey
DiedDecember 23, 1989(1989-12-23) (aged 88)
Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, DC

Bertram Dalley Tallamy (December 1, 1901 – September 14, 1989) was superintendent of the New York State Department of Public Works from 1948 to 1955.[1] On October 12, 1956, he was named by Dwight D. Eisenhower as the Federal Highway Administrator under the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956.

Biography

He was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, on December 1, 1901. He attended the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and graduated with a degree in civil engineering in 1925.[1]

He was the superintendent of the New York State Department of Public Works from 1948 to 1955 [1] where he worked alongside Edward Burton Hughes who held the post of Deputy Superintendent.

On October 12, 1956, he was named by Dwight D. Eisenhower as the Federal Highway Administrator.[2] He was sworn in on February 5, 1957.[3] He served as Federal Highway Administrator through the rest of the Eisenhower Administration.[4]

He then founded Bertram D. Tallamy & Associates.[5]

He died on September 14, 1989, at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., of kidney failure.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Alfonso A. Narvaez (September 19, 1989). "Bertram D. Tallamy, 87, Official For U.S. and New York Highways". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-11-14. Bertram Dalley Tallamy, an engineer who supervised billions of dollars in highway construction for the Federal Government and for New York State, died of kidney failure Thursday at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. He was 87 years old and lived in Washington. …
  2. ^ "Bertram D. Tallamy". Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved 2014-01-10. On October 12, 1956, the White House announced that President Dwight D. Eisenhower had chosen Bertram D. Tallamy to be the first [sic] Federal Highway Administrator
  3. ^ "Public Roads - the Man Who Changed America, Part II , May/June 2003 -".
  4. ^ "Bertram D. Tallamy - Interstate System - Highway History - Federal Highway Administration".
  5. ^ "Tallamy to Study L.I. Sound Bridge". The New York Times. Associated Press. July 31, 1964. Retrieved 2014-09-29. A firm headed by Bertram D. Tallamy, former State Public Works Superintendent, has been awarded an $80,000
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