Logan Waller Page

Logan Waller Page (January 10, 1870 – December 9, 1918) was an American government official. He became the first director of the Office of Public Roads in 1905, after the U.S. Congress passed an act that consolidated the Office of Public Inquiry and the Bureau of Chemistry.

Early life Logan Waller Page was born on January 10, 1870, in Richmond, Virginia, to Legh R. Page. He studied at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and later graduated from Harvard University. He also attended the National School of Bridges and Roads in France.

Career Page worked for the state of Massachusetts as a geologist and testing engineer. He conducted the first extensive investigation of road-building materials in America. In 1900, he became chief of the Division of Tests, a division of the United States Department of Agriculture, in Washington, D.C. In this role, he studied road building on a national scale. Later, as chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, a series of investigations conducted awarded the laboratories he directed international acclaim. At the time of his death, he was director of road work for the Department of Agriculture.