Alan Stephenson Boyd

Alan Stephenson Boyd is an American attorney and transportation executive who led several large corporations and also served the U.S. Government in various transportationrelated positions. He was the first United States Secretary of Transportation, appointed by Lyndon Johnson. Additionally, he served in executive positions with the Civil Aeronautics Board, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and was a president of Amtrak.

Boyd was born on July 20, 1922, in Jacksonville, Florida, to Clarence Boyd and Elizabeth Stephenson Boyd. He graduated from high school in 1939, and graduated from the University of Florida in 1941. He joined the United States Army Air Forces in 1942 and remained there through the end of the war. Boyd married, the former Flavil Juanita Townsend on April 3, 1943. They had one son, Mark Boyd. He was two grandchildren, Heather and Alan Boyd. The latter was named after him.

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