Horatio Earle - Road Advocacy Timeline 1898-1909

Road Advocacy Timeline 1898-1909

• 1898: Appointed by Edward N. Hines, Chief Consul of the League of American Wheelmen (LAW) Michigan Division to chair a Good Roads committee.
• 1899: Unanimously elected Chief Consul with a platform to eliminate bicycle racing from the League and push the Good Roads Movement.
• 1900: Elected to the Michigan Senate as an LAW candidate.
• 1901: Introduces a Michigan Senate Resolution which creates a State Highway Commission and is subsequently elected as chair.
• 1902: Proposes the Federal Government create an interstate highway system. Founds the American Road Makers (later to be renamed the American Road Builders Association (1910), and since 1977, known as the American Road and Transportation Builders Association).
• 1903: Appointed Commissioner of Highways by Michigan Governor Aaron T. Bliss.
• 1905: Introduces State Reward Road legislation, which creates a State Highway Department currently known as the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT).
• 1906: Introduces legislation that creates the Wayne County Road Board whose initial members are Cass R. Benton, Henry Ford, and Edward N. Hines.
• 1908: Loses gubernatorial Republican primary.
• 1909: Creates the World's first mile of concrete road on Woodward Avenue in Detroit.