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Inception, Creation and Personnel
At the 1924 annual meeting of the American Association of State Highway Officials at San Francisco, action was taken on November 20, requesting the Secretary of Agriculture to appoint a board composed of representatives of the State highway departments and of the Bureau of Public Roads in the following language :
"This Association hereby requests the Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with the several States to undertake immediately the selection and designation of a comprehensive system of through interstate routes and to devise a comprehensive and uniform scheme for designating such routes in such a manner as to give them a conspicuous place among the highways of the country as roads of interstate and national significance."
"To more satisfactorily carry out these suggestions and obtain speedy and satisfactory results, this Association requests the Secretary of Agriculture to appoint a Board to be composed of members of the
Bureau of Public Roads and of the State highway departments to cooperate in formulating and promulgating a system of numbering and marking highways of interstate character."
The request having been laid before the Secretary, he concurred, and under date of March 2, 1925, appointed a board composed of the following persons:
Bureau of Public Roads Members
Mr. Thomas H. MacDonald, Chairman,
Chief of Bureau.
Mr. E. W. James, Secretary,
Chief, Division of Design.
Mr. A. B. Fletcher,
Consulting Highway Engineer.
