1922 – Alan Stephenson Boyd, the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation was born in Jacksonville on this date. Not only was Boyd the first to occupy this newly created position, he was the first Floridian to serve in a U.S. President’s cabinet. He graduated from the University of Florida in 1941 and served in the Army Air Force during WWII. After the war he practiced law in Florida and was appointed to the Civil Aeronautics Board by President Eisenhower and became chairman under President Kennedy. Boyd worked to consolidate many government agencies related to the transportation industry into one governing body which he succeeded in doing with the creation of the Department of Transportation in 1966.