Conde McCullough
Conde Balcom McCullough (* May 30, 1887 in Redfield, South Dakota; † May 6, 1946 in Salem, Marion County, Oregon) was an American civil engineer, who primarily for configuring the bridges on the west coast of the United States extending U.S. Highway 101 is well-known within Oregon. A native of South Dakota McCullough worked from 1919 to 1935 and again from 1937 to 1946 for the Oregon Department of Transportation. McCullough was a high school teacher at Oregon State University.
Early life
In 1891 his family moved to Iowa, where the father died in 1904. McCullough participated in several locations to support his family. In 1910 he finished his studies at Iowa State University with a degree in civil engineering.
Career
McCullough began his career at the bridge company Marsh Bridge Company in Des Moines, Iowa, where he remained for a year. Then he took a job in the Iowa State Highway Commission. 1916 Conde moved to Oregon and became an assistant professor at Oregon Agricultural College, where he was the only university professor in the field of civil engineering. In 1919 he was appointed director of the Bridge Department at Oregon Department of Transportation. This position made him responsible for the design concepts of the bridges in the course of completion of U.S. Highway 101 in Oregon.
His designs were known for their architectural beauty. McCullough advocated that bridges should be built not only economically efficient but also the demands of the aesthetic enough. He was involved in the planning of more than 600 bridges Through his work in the Department of Transportation of the State, many of which have architectural features such as Neo-Gothic towers, obelisks of the Art Deco or Romanesque arches. In 1928, he finished a degree in law at Willamette University College of Law and was admitted in the same year in the Bar Association. In 1935, he moved to San Jose to Costa Rica, where he helped in the planning of the Pan-American Highway. In 1937, he returned to Oregon and was deputy director of the highway management of this state.
Death and legacy
McCullough died on 6 May 1946 of an infarct. After his death, the Federal Public Administration, the Coos Bay Bridge named to Conde McCullough Memorial Bridge.