A Guide to the Correspondence and Subject Files of the Virginia Secretary of Transportation, 1972-1979
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 30494
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Preferred Citation
Correspondence and Subject Files of the Virginia Secretary of Transportation, 1972-1979. Accession 30494, State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Acquisition Information
Accession 30494 was transferred by the Office of the Secretary of Transportation, 9th St. Office Building, Richmond, Va, on 21 August 1979.
Processing Information
This collection has been processed using minimal processing standards: the original arrangement has been maintained, the container list is brief and simple, and the records have not been refoldered and fasteners have not been removed.
Material found loose in the boxes was foldered and given a title determined by the archivist. In cases where folder titles were inaccurate, the titles have been corrected to more adequately describe the material.
Historical Information
In 1970, the Governor's Management Commission Study recommended the creation of six "Deputy Governors" to assist the Chief Executive in his managerial duties. Compatible functions of government were grouped under these administrative heads, who would serve as the Governors top management team or "secretariats," as they are called now.
Governor Linwood Holton's top priority for the 1972 session of the General Assembly was a proposal for a Governor's Cabinet, reorganizing state agencies into six major departments--each headed by a secretary appointed by the governor. Transportation and public safety was one of these six departments. The office of Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety was created on April 8, 1972, by an act passed by the General Assembly. Governor Holton appointed Wayne A. Whitham, a member of the Winchester City Council, as the first Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety. When Whitham took office on July 1, 1972, he was responsible for State Highway Commission, Division of Motor Vehicles, Department of State Police, Highway Safety Division, Office of Emergency Services, Department of Military Affairs, Virginia State Crime Commission and the Law Enforcement Officers Training Standards Commission. The Office has undergone a series of administrative reorganizations since. On April 12, 1976, the Legislature established separate secretariats for transportation and for public safety, effective July 1, 1976. On July 1, 1984, the offices were again combined. Most recently, the Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety was divided into separate secretariats on February 22, 1990. The Secretary of Transportation is a member of the Governor's Cabinet, and is appointed by the governor, subject to confirmation by the General Assembly. The Secretary is responsible to the governor for the Department of Transportation, Department of Rail and Public Transportation, Department of Aviation, Department of Motor Vehicles, Virginia Port Authority and the Motor Vehicle Dealers Board.
Wayne A. Whitham, the first Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety, was reappointed by Governor-elect Miles E. Godwin,
Jr., in December 1973 and by Governor-elect John N. Dalton in December 1977. Whitham suffered a heart attack in August 1978
and resigned in December 1978. On June 7, 1984, Whitham died in Richmond, Virginia. Governor Dalton named George M. Walters,
a former top executive of the Reynolds Metals Corporation, to succeed Whitham as Secretary of Transportation. Walters served
until the end of Dalton's term in January 1982. Governor-elect Charles S. Robb, the first Democrat to be elected governor
since 1965, did not retain any of Dalton's cabinet secretaries. Robb appointed Andrew B. Fogarty, Dalton's assistant secretary
for financial policy, as Secretary of Transportation. On July 1, 1984, the secretariats of transportation and public safety
were combined again. As a result this partial reorganization of state government, Governor Robb appointed Fogarty Secretary
of Administration and Franklin E. White, Secretary of Public Safety, assumed Fogarty's Transportation duties. White, who served
as a White House liaison official under President Jimmy Carter, resigned in June 1985 to become the New York state commissioner of transportation. He was replaced by Andrew
Fogarty who served until the end of the Robb administration. He later served as Governor Gerald L. Baliles chief of staff
from August 1986 to October 1989 when he resigned to become a vice
president
with CSX Corporation.
In December 1985, Governor-elect Gerald L. Baliles, picked Vivian E. Watts, a northern Virginia legislator, as Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety. Watts served until the end of Baliles' term in 1990. In 1995 she was elected to her old seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. On February 22, 1990, the Secretary of Transportation and Public Safety was divided into separate secretariats. Governor L. Douglas Wilder, appointed John G. Milliken, a member of the Arlington County Board of Supervisors, as the Secretary of Transportation. Milliken resigned on December 17, 1993.
In February 1994 Governor George Allen, the first Republican elected governor since 1977, appointed Robert Martinez as Secretary
of Transportation. Martinez was born in Cuba and had served as Deputy Administrator for the Marine Administration and Associate
Deputy Secretary of Transportation during President
George H.W. Bush's administration. At the end of Governor Allen's term in January 1998, Martinez joined the Norfolk Southern
Corporation. Shirley Ybarra, deputy Secretary of Transportation in the Allen administration, was named Martinez's successor
by Governor-elect James Gilmore. Ybarra previously worked as a special assistant to Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole
during
President
Ronald Reagan's administration. Ybarra served until the end of Gilmore's administration in January 2002. Whittington W. Clement,
a former lawyer and long-time member of the Virginia House of Delegates representing the City of Danville, was appointed Secretary
of Transportation by Governor Mark R. Warner in 2002. Pierce R. Homer, Deputy Secretary of Transportation, replaced Clement
in 2005.
Scope and Content
These records consist of Wayne A. Whitham's correspondence, conference records, commission meeting files, and other subject files compiled during his term as the Secretary of Transportation.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into the following series:
Series I. Correspondence and Subject Files, 1972-1979Contents List
Arranged alphabetically by folder title.
- Box 1
Folder 1
American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, 1972 .
- Box 1
Folder 2
Aviation, 1977 .
- Box 1
Folder 3
Berryville, 1973-1974 .
- Box 1
Folder 4
Cabinet Meetings, 1972-1973 .
- Box 1
Folder 5
Cabinet Meetings, 1974-1977 .
- Box 1
Folder 6
CHAIR-E-Yacht (vehicle for handicapped), 1977 .
- Box 1
Folder 7
Citizens Band Radios (Highway Saftey Division), 1976 .
- Box 1
Folder 8
Cosmopolitan Club of Norfolk, Va. ( Speech by Wayne A. Whitham), 1978 .
- Box 1
Folder 9
Concorde SST, 1976 .
- Box 1
Folder 10
COS DOT Meeting, Williamsburg, Va.(Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1973 .
- Box 1
Folder 11
COS DOT Meeting, San Diego, Ca.(Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1977 .
- Box 1
Folder 12
COS DOT Meeting, Sarasota, Fl.(Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1977 .
- Box 1
Folder 13
COS DOT Meeting, Denver, Co.(Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1978 .
- Box 1
Folder 14
COS DOT Meeting, Portland, Or.(Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1978 .
- Box 1
Folder 15
COS DOT Meeting - Arizona (Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1976-1978 .
- Box 1
Folder 16
COS DOT Meeting - California (Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1973-1979 .
- Box 1
Folder 17
COS DOT Meeting - Delaware (Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1974-1978 .
- Box 1
Folder 18
COS DOT Meeting - Florida (Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1973-1978 .
- Box 1
Folder 19
COS DOT Meeting - Hawaii (Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1976-1978 .
- Box 1
Folder 20
COS DOT Meeting - Idaho (Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1976 .
- Box 1
Folder 21
COS DOT Meeting - Iowa (Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1975-1979 .
- Box 1
Folder 22
COS DOT Meeting - Kentucky (Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1976-1978 .
- Box 1
Folder 23
COS DOT Meeting - Maryland (Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1972-1978 .
- Box 1
Folder 24
COS DOT Meeting - Massachusettes (Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1973-1974 .
- Box 1
Folder 25
COS DOT Meeting - New Jersey (Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1973-1977 .
- Box 1
Folder 26
COS DOT Meeting - New York (Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1972-1977 .
- Box 1
Folder 27
COS DOT Meeting - North Carolina (Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1973-1976 .
- Box 1
Folder 28
COS DOT Meeting - Oregon (Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1975-1978 .
- Box 1
Folder 29
COS DOT Meeting - Virginia (Conference of State Departments of Transportation), 1976 .
- Box 1
Folder 30
Creech, Marion F. (Personnel Matter), 1978 .
- Box 1
Folder 31
Durrette, Wyatt B. (Delegate Va. General Assembly), 1974 .
- Box 1
Folder 32
Elmore, Spencer H. (Consultant), 1974-1976 .
- Box 1 Folder 33
- Box 1
Folder 34
Greiner Engineering Sciences, Inc. (Mudd and Kennedy), 1973-1974 .
- Box 1
Folder 35
Herring Electric Co. Inc. (Re: Route 609 in Loudoun County), 1974-1978 .
- Box 1
Folder 36
Highway Accident Report (Tractor-Semitrailer/Schoolbus Accident, Rustburg, Va.), 1978 .
- Box 2
Folder 37
Highway and Transportation Conference (VMI Lexington), 1978 .
- Box 2
Folder 38
Highway Safety Comission Meetings (Agenda, etc.), 1974-1977 .
- Box 2
Folder 39
Highway Safety Coordinating Comittee, 1972-1977 .
- Box 2
Folder 40
Jones, George W. (Re: Various Highway Matters), 1972 .
- Box 2
Folder 41
McChesney, William T. (UVA Re: Communications Training), 1976 .
- Box 2
Folder 42
Manns, Paul W. (Deeased - Was former Senator in General Assembly of Virginia), 1973-1974 .
- Box 2
Folder 43
Military Affairs, Dept of Nike-Hercules (Reduction in Force, Tehnical Personnel), 1974 .
- Box 2
Folder 44
Military Affairs, Dept of (Realighnment of 4030th Support Center (RAO) Staunton, Va.), 1975 .
- Box 2
Folder 45
Miller, Bruce C. (Executive Assistant to Governor Godwin), 1973-1977 .
- Box 2
Folder 46
Moschler, Richard C. Jr. (Former DMV and MASD employee), 1972-1976 .
- Box 2
Folder 47
Mount Rogers National Recreation Area (Scenic Drive), 1972-1973 .
- Box 2
Folder 48
Pettit, Homer B. (Transportation Consultant), 1974-1975 .
- Box 2
Folder 49
Pipeline Safety (Material from old Division of State Planning), 1974-1975 .
- Box 2
Folder 50
Powell, E. Angus (Re: Brandermill - Highway Problems), 1974-1978 .
- Box 2
Folder 51
Rural Public Transportation Demonstration Program, 1974-1976 .
- Box 2
Folder 52
SAC (Strategic Air Command)- Trip Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, Neb., 1977 .
- Box 2
Folder 53
SASHTO - Southeastern Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (Meeting in Asheville, North Carolina), 1977 .
- Box 2
Folder 54
School Bus Use Study (HRJ No. 89), 1974-1975 .
- Box 2
Folder 55
Scott, William J. (Senator, U.S. Virginia), 1974-1978 .
- Box 2
Folder 56
Southern Governor's Conference - Seminars, Jackson, Mississippi (Re: MPO and other Transportation items), 1976 .
- Box 2
Folder 57
Southern Governor's Conference - Williamsburg, Va., 1976 .
- Box 2
Folder 58
Southern Growth Policies Board (Regional Committee on Transportation), 1974 .
- Box 2
Folder 59
Thomson, James M. (Virginia House of Delegates, former member), 1972-1977 .
- Box 2
Folder 60
United States Railway Association - RAIL (Eastern Shore), 1974-1976 .
- Box 2
Folder 61
Urban Assistance Incentive Fund (State Planning and Community Affairs), 1976 .
- Box 2
Folder 62
Virginia Road Builders Association - Meeting (Arizona), 1977 .
- Box 2
Folder 63
Williams, Carrington (Former member of Va. House of Delegates (Re: Transportation)), 19762-1975 .
- Box 2
Folder 64
World Trade Conference (Williamsburg, Va.), 1978 .