J. Clyde Morris

J. Clyde Morris

J. Clyde Morris was a civic leader in the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia.

Morris served as the only city manager of the short-lived City of Warwick in the Virginia Peninsula subregion from 1952 to 1958. This was an important and change-filled period for the former Warwick County, one of the original shires of Virginia originally established in 1634. In 1952, Warwick made the transition to become an independent city. Then, in 1958, it was consolidated with neighboring City of Newport News, which had become separate from the county in after development of the coal piers and teh eastern terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and the massive facilities of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company by developer and industrialist Collis P. Huntington.

Morris next undertook leadership of the entities which funded, built and operate the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, completed in 1964. He was the first executive director.

In Newport News, a stretch of U.S. Route 17 from Warwick Boulevard to York County is named J. Clyde Morris Boulevard in his honor. [ http://www.newport-news.org/media-center/newport-news-in-detail/newport-news-trivia-and-fun-facts.html ]

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