Morgan, Former FHWA, Highway Industry Official, Dies at 69
Richard D. Morgan, who rose to become executive director of the Federal Highway Administration during a 32-year career at the agency, died on June 18 in Easton, Md., of leukemia. He was 69. After leaving FHWA in 1989, Morgan was vice president at the National Asphalt Pavement Association, Lanham, Md., until he retired in 1998.
Morgan joined FHWA's predecessor agency, the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, in 1952, and was named to the executive director, FHWA's senior career post, in 1982. FHWA Administrator Mary Peters said that Morgan "helped move the agency from the great construction era that began in 1956 to the post-Interstate era of preserving and enhancing the highway network that has become the backbone of America's transportation system."