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A Guide to the Correspondence and Subject Files of the Virginia Secretary of Transportation, 1972-1979 Transportation, Virginia Secretary of, Correspondence and Subject Files 31228

A Guide to the Correspondence and Subject Files of the Virginia Secretary of Transportation, 1972-1979

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Accession Number 31228


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Repository
The Library of Virginia
Accession Number
31228
Title
Correspondence and Subject Files of the Virginia Secretary of Transportation, 1972-1979
Extent
7 cu. ft. (7 boxes)
Creator
Virginia. Office of the Secretary of Transportation
Language
English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Correspondence and Subject Files of the Virginia Secretary of Transportation, 1972-1979. Accession 31228, State Government Records Collection, Tha Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Accession 31228 was transfered from the Office of the Secretary of Transportation on 20 October 1981.

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.

Biographical 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

This collection contains general correspondence and subject files for the Virginia Office of the Secretary of Transportation, organized into alphabetic miscellaneous files, other specific subject files such as aviation, military affairs, DMV, energy, rail, VA-09-8001 Technical Study Grant, Human Resources Agency Transportation Study, and VA-09-8003 Technical Study Grant.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following series:

Correspondence and Subject Files

Contents List

Series I. Correspondence and Subject Files , 1972-1979 .
Boxes 1-7
Extent: 7 boxes.

The original order of files has been maintained as they were recieved from the agency, which are generally arranged alphabetically by folder title.

  • Box 1 Folder 1
    Miscellaneous A, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 1 Folder 2
    Miscellaneous B, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 1 Folder 3
    Miscellaneous C, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 1 Folder 4
    Miscellaneous D, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 1 Folder 5
    Miscellaneous E, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 1 Folder 6
    Miscellaneous F, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 1 Folder 7
    Miscellaneous G, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 1 Folder 8
    Miscellaneous H, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 1 Folder 9
    Miscellaneous I, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 1 Folder 10
    Miscellaneous J, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 1 Folder 11
    Miscellaneous K, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 1 Folder 12
    Miscellaneous L, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 1 Folder 13
    Miscellaneous M, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 1 Folder 14
    Miscellaneous N, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 1 Folder 15
    Miscellaneous O, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 1 Folder 16
    Miscellaneous P, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 2 Folder 1
    Miscellaneous Q, 1972-1974 .
  • Box 2 Folder 2
    Miscellaneous R, 1972-1979 .
  • Box 2 Folder 3
    Miscellaneous S, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 2 Folder 4
    Miscellaneous T, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 2 Folder 5
    Miscellaneous U, 1972-1975 .
  • Box 2 Folder 6
    Miscellaneous V, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 2 Folder 7
    Miscellaneous W, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 2 Folder 8
    Aviation, Department of (Transition - Effective 7/1/79), 1979 .
  • Box 2 Folder 9
    Aeronautics, Division of, 1972-1979 .
  • Box 2 Folder 10
    Emergency Services - General, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 3 Folder 1
    Highway Safety Division - General (Became Transportation Safety - 7/1/78), 1972-1979 .
  • Box 3 Folder 2
    Highways and Transportation, Department of - General, 1972-1979 .
  • Box 3 Folder 3
    Military Affairs, Department of - General, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 3 Folder 4
    Military Affairs, Department of - Pendleton Property/Right-of-way HB631, 1978 .
  • Box 3 Folder 5
    Motor Vehicles, Division of - General, 1972-1979 .
  • Box 3 Folder 6
    Department of Motor Vehicles: Headquarters Building, 1979 .
  • Box 3 Folder 7
    Motor Vehicles - Lease/purchase Agreement - Headquarters Building, 1979 .
  • Box 3 Folder 8
    Department of Motor Vehicles: Branch Office Personnel Classification Change, 1974-1977 .
  • Box 3 Folder 9
    Department of Motor Vehicles Personnel, 1979-1980 .
  • Box 3 Folder 10
    Virginia Port Authority - General, 1978 .
  • Box 3 Folder 11
    Audit, Internal - State Agencies, 1979 .
  • Box 3 Folder 12
    Aviation, Senate Sub-Committee (Commerce Hearings), 1975 .
  • Box 3 Folder 13
    Aviation, House Sub-Committee (Public works and transportation Hearings), 1976 .
  • Box 3 Folder 14
    Aviation - Deregulation (Regulatory Reform), 1977-1979 .
  • Box 3 Folder 15
    British Airways, 1976 .
  • Box 4 Folder 1
    1979 Energy: Division of - State Office of Energy and Emergency Services (General), 1979 .
  • Box 4 Folder 2
    Energy: Coal: Capabilities of Virginia Meeting, 1979 .
  • Box 4 Folder 3
    Energy: Coal: Va Coal and Energy Commission, 1979 .
  • Box 4 Folder 4
    Energy: Gasoline Coupons - State Ration Reserve Plan, 1980 .
  • Box 4 Folder 5
    Energy Division: Comprehensive State Energy Plan, 1979-1980 .
  • Box 4 Folder 6
    Energy: U.S. Department of Energy - Temperature Emergency Building (Temperature Restrictions), 1979-1980 .
  • Box 4 Folder 7
    Energy: U.S. Department of Energy - Power Plant and Industrial Fuel Use Act (Facilities), 1979 .
  • Box 4 Folder 8
    False Cape State Park, 1974-1980 .
  • Box 4 Folder 9
    Federal Disaster Assistance Administration, 1979 .
  • Box 4 Folder 10
    Greene County Courthouse - Expolsion and Fire, 1979 .
  • Box 4 Folder 11
    Handicapped and Elderly, 1972-1980 .
  • Box 4 Folder 12
    Hazardous Materials Transportation - Ad Hoc Committee, 1979-1980 .
  • Box 4 Folder 13
    Highway Leg - Federal Highway Beautification Assistance Act, 1979 .
  • Box 4 Folder 14
    Hillsboro, Tow of, 1979 .
  • Box 4 Folder 15
    Ivanhoe Industrial Site (Carroll and Wythe Counties), 1980 .
  • Box 4 Folder 16
    Joint Legislation Audit Review Committee - Federal Funds Study (HJR 237 General Assembly), 1979 .
  • Box 4 Folder 17
    Jones, Richard H. (Aviation Matters), 1979 .
  • Box 4 Folder 18
    Kilmarnock, Virginia - Post Office (Parking Problems), 1979-1980 .
  • Box 4 Folder 19
    Metric System, 1979 .
  • Box 4 Folder 20
    Motorcycles, 1974-1978 .
  • Box 4 Folder 21
    National Air and Space Museum, 1978-1979 .
  • Box 4 Folder 21
    Newport News Marine Terminal, 1978-1979 .
  • Box 4 Folder 22
    Norfolk, Baltimore and Carolina Line Inc. (NBC), 1979 .
  • Box 5 Folder 1
    Payne, John K. Re: Southern Railroad Crossing Accident, 1979-1980 .
  • Box 5 Folder 2
    Norhtern Virginia Transportation Commission, 1971-1979 .
  • Box 5 Folder 3
    Rail: AMTRAK - National Railroad Passenger Corporation, 1972-1980 .
  • Box 5 Folder 4
    Rail: Penn Central Car Float (Little Creek/Cape Charles), 1973-1977 .
  • Box 5 Folder 5
    Rail: Scenic Railroad (Gate City/Washington County), 1979 .
  • Box 5 Folder 6
    Shirley Highway - Bus/Carpool Reversible Express Lanes, 1972-1979 .
  • Box 5 Folder 7
    Southeastern Virginia Planning District Commission, 1972-1978 .
  • Box 5 Folder 8
    Rail: T.C.C. Rail Service Planning Office, 1974-1979 .
  • Box 5 Folder 9
    Rail: L and N Railroad - Coal Hauling, 1976 .
  • Box 5 Folder 10
    Thalhimers, 1977-1979 .
  • Box 5 Folder 11
    Virginia Visitor Travel Survey, 1979 .
  • Box 5 Folder 12
    Virginia Resource Information System (HJR 175), 1978 .
  • Box 5 Folder 13
    WMATA - Signing Ceremonies Bond Guaranty and Compact Amendments, 1972 .
  • Box 6,
    VA-09-8001 Technical Study Grant and Human Resources Agency Transportation Study, 1976-1978 .
    • Box 6 Folder 1
      No. 1 Contract Negotiation, 1977-1979 .
    • Box 6 Folder 2
      No. 1 (a) Work Program - originals, 1977-1979 .
    • Box 6 Folder 3
      No. 1 (b) Work Program - less budget, 1977-1979 .
    • Box 6 Folder 4
      No. 1 (c) Governor's Office Form Budget 16 and Grant Application, 1977-1979 .
    • Box 6 Folder 5
      No. 2 Contract and Budget Amendments, 1977-1979 .
    • Box 6 Folder 6
      No. 3 Federal Guidelines and Forms, 1977-1979 .
    • Box 6 Folder 7
      No. 4 Grant Payments, 1977-1979 .
    • Box 6 Folder 8
      No. 5 Charges Against Contract, 1977-1979 .
    • Box 6 Folder 9
      No. 6 Time and Activity Reports, 1977-1979 .
    • Box 6 Folder 10
      No. 7 Financial Reports, 1977-1979 .
    • Box 6 Folder 11
      No. 8 Project Status Report, 1977-1979 .
    • Box 6 Folder 12
      No. 9 General Correspodence, 1977-1979 .
    • Box 6 Folder 13
      No. 10 the Impact of Transportation on Delivery of Human Services, 1977-1979 .
    • Box 6 Folder 14
      Work Element II - Charlottesville, Va., 1977 .
    • Box 6 Folder 15
      Work Element II - Farmville, Va., 1977 .
    • Box 6 Folder 16
      Work Element II - Brief for Secretary Jean Harris, 1977-1979 .
    • Box 6 Folder 17
      Work Element II - 1976, 1976 .
    • Box 6 Folder 18
      Work Element II - 1977, 1977 .
    • Box 6 Folder 19
      Work Element II - 1978, 1978 .
    • Box 6 Folder 20
      Work Element II - Texarkana Transportation Project, 1977-1979 .
  • Box 7
    Governor's Council on Transportation: VA-09-8003 UMTA Technical Study Grant , 1976-1977 .
    Extent: 1 box.
    • Box 7 Folder 1
      Work Element II - Charlottesville, Va., 1977-1979 .
    • Box 7 Folder 2
      Governor's Council on Transportation - UMTA Technical Study Grant, 1976-1977 .
    • Box 7 Folder 3
      Governor's Council on Transportation (SJR 56), 1976-1977 .
    • Box 7 Folder 4
      Final Report, 1976-1977 .
    • Box 7 Folder 5
      Recommendations - Summary of 1977 Report, 1976-1977 .
    • Box 7 Folder 6
      1976 Report - December, 1976-1977 .
    • Box 7 Folder 7
      Consultants (Worden and Risbert Inc., Philadelphia, Pa.), 1976-1977 .
    • Box 7 Folder 8
      General Correspondence - Budget, 1976-1977 .
    • Box 7 Folder 9
      General Correspondence - Federal Grant, 1976-1977 .
    • Box 7 Folder 10
      General Correspondence - Financial Reports, 1976-1977 .
    • Box 7 Folder 11
      General Correspondence - legislation Proposed, 1976-1977 .
    • Box 7 Folder 12
      General Correspondence - Furniture and Equipment, 1976-1977 .
    • Box 7 Folder 13
      General Correspondence - Meetings, 1976-1977 .
    • Box 7 Folder 14
      General Correspondence - Presentation to Hopkins Commission, 1976-1977 .
    • Box 7 Folder 15
      General Correspondence - Governor's Council on Transportation Members, 1976-1977 .
    • Box 7 Folder 16
      General Correspondence - Progress Reports, 1976-1977 .
    • Box 7 Folder 17
      General Correspondence - Consultants' Presentation to Joint Senate Finance and transportation Commitees, 1976-1977 .
    • Box 7 Folder 18
      General Correspondence - Travel Vouchers, 1976-1977 .
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