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Alan Stephenson Boyd
President
Biography
Alan Stephenson Boyd was a lawyer by trade, and in November 1966, he was the first secretary of the United States Department of Transportation.
Boyd left the Department of Transportation in January 1969 and served as the head of the Illinois Central Railroad. He held the post until 1972.
In 1978, he was named Amtrak’s third president, a position he held until June 20, 1982. During his tenure at Amtrak, he oversaw the restructuring of routes in 1979 and the Northeast Corridor Improvement Project.
Additionally, Boyd is recognized for his efforts in restructuring management to prepare for the challenges of the 1980s and beyond.
“I would like to stress again the need for the creation of a newly-structured relationship with the federal government,” Boyd wrote in his first year with Amtrak. “If there is one single thing we need, it is continuity in funding and stability in routes and services.”
Thomas J. Bradley
Engineer
Biography
Thomas J. Bradley was at the throttle of Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad locomotive No. 9 on February 10, 1870, when its boiler suddenly exploded.
The blast sent Bradley “whizzing through the air for some distance” into a telegraph wire, nearly severing his body in half.
Bradley, who was also the master mechanic at the railroad’s shops in Clarksville, left behind a wife.
Gilbert C. Breed
General Freight Agent
Biography
Gilbert C. Breed (November 17, 1829-November 17, 1886) held a series of posts with the Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad.
A native of Stonington, Connecticut, Breed was elected Clarksville, Tennessee, city engineer circa January 1858. He resigned from the railroad by November 1858 to form a business partnership with contractor A.J. Harrison.
By February 1860, Breed was secretary of the Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad.
In October 1861, Superintendent George B. Fleece appointed G.C. Breed as master of transportation and assistant superintendent in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
In about April 1862, Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville President Robert W. Humphreys apparently dismissed Breed for his pro-Union sentiments.
After the Louisville & Nashville company took over the Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville, Breed was the general purchasing agent with headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky. He was later the assistant general manager of the Louisville & Nashville. In his last years, he was the auditor of another railroad.
Joseph Mackey Brown
Biography
Joseph Mackey Brown (December 28, 1851–March 3, 1932) was the 59th governor of Georgia and served two terms, one from 1909 to 1911 and the other from 1912 to 1913. He has been implicated posthumously as one of the leaders involved in the lynching of Leo Frank.
Brown, also known as “Little Joe Brown,” was born in Canton, Georgia, the son of Joseph E. Brown, Georgia’s Civil War Governor. After graduating from Oglethorpe University in 1872, he studied law at Harvard University. Although Brown passed the bar in 1873, but never practiced law because of poor eyesight. Later, he attended a business college in Atlanta, Georgia, and became a clerk with the Western and Atlantic Railroad and eventually the traffic manager.
In 1904, Governor Joseph M. Terrell appointed Brown to the Georgia State Railroad Commission. In 1907, Governor Hoke Smith removed Brown over disagreements about passenger fares.