History
The Board of Supervisors has been in existence since at least the 1890s. It operated under an urban county executive form of government until the mid 1960s, after which the position of Chairman was created. Frederick Babson was the first person to hold the chairmanship from 1966 to 1970. In recent years, the chairmanship has acted as a stepping stone to offices of higher political power; Gerry Connolly, the chairman from 2003 to 2007, now serves in the U.S. House of Representatives; as did Tom Davis, who was Chairman in the early 1990s, and Katherine Hanley, who served from the late 1990s to early 2000s, and has since served as Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Jack Herrity served as Chairman during Fairfax County's period of growth during the 1980s, when the County, previously known as a quiet suburb of Washington, D.C.; became the high population center of the Dulles Technology Corridor that it is known as presently. During that period of growth, the Board advocated for the construction of Interstate 66 inside the Capital Beltway and for the Dulles Toll Road, as well as for a major expansion of Tysons Corner, Virginia, which now is home to many employers in the information technology industry.
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