About Francis Turner
Lived 1908 – 1999 (aged 90). Francis Turner was an American civil engineer.
Francis Cutler Turner (December 28, 1908 – October 6, 1999) was an American administrator, who headed the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) from March 30, 1969, to June 30, 1972.
Biography He was born on December 28, 1908, in Dallas, Texas, and spent his childhood in Texas, including in Fort Worth. He received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Texas A&M in 1929 and a graduate degree in civil engineering from there in 1940.
Turner was appointed by President Eisenhower to be the Executive Secretary of the Clay Commission President's Advisory Committee on the National Highway Program in 1954.
He died on October 6, 1999, at the age 90, at a hospice in Goldsboro, North Carolina.
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Who was Francis Turner?
American engineer (1908-1999)
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Francis Turner was born on 28 December 1908 in Dallas.
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Francis Turner died on 6 October 1999 in Goldsboro.
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Francis Turner was a civil engineer.
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Francis Turner was American.
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