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Tom MacDonald, Iowa State College class of 1904, was appointed that same year as the first chief engineer of the new Iowa Highway Commission. He left Ames in 1919 to become the first chief of the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads in Washington, D.C., a position he held luntil 1953. MacDonald was the chief architect for the interstate highway system. Photo, courtesy of the Iowa Department of Transportation.