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Walker Downer Hines
Hines circa 1918
Director General of Railroads
In office
1919–1920
Personal details
Born(1870-02-02)February 2, 1870
Russellville, Kentucky
DiedJanuary 14, 1934(1934-01-14) (aged 63)
Merano, Italy
Spouse

Alice Clymer Macfarlane

(m. 1900)

Walker Downer Hines (February 2, 1870 – January 14, 1934) was an American railroad executive and second Director General of the United States Railroad Administration.

Biography[edit]

Hines was born February 2, 1870, in Russellville, Kentucky, the son of James Madison Hines and Mary Walker Downer.[1]

Ogden College, graduated 1888. University of Virginia, graduated 1891.

In 1886, aged sixteen, he became stenographer for the Circuit CourtofWarren County. In 1890 he became secretary to the assistant chief attorney of the Louisville and Nashville RailroadatLouisville, Kentucky. He was appointed assistant attorney after graduating law school, assistant chief attorney in 1897.

He married Alice Clymer Macfarlane in 1900, they had one child.

He was promoted to vice-president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1901. Hines spent nearly ten years fighting railroad regulation in state and federal courts.

In 1906 he joined Cravath, Henderson and de GersdoffinNew York City, becoming a partner in 1907. He was with the firm for seven more years.

Hines joined the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railwayasgeneral counsel, was made chair of the executive committee in 1908 and chairman of the board in 1916.

In December, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson nationalized most U.S. railroads under the United States Railroad Administration. William G. McAdoo was made director general, Hines agreed to become assistant director general. McAdoo resigned in January, 1919, and Hines stepped in as director general for the remainder of nationalization under the Railroad Administration, which ended on March 1, 1920.[2] Following the end of World War I, Hines worked and traveled extensively in Europe.

In the latter half of the 1920s, Hines was a director of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, a director of its subsidiary, the Colorado and Southern Railway, general counsel of one of its parent companies, the Great Northern Railway, and a partner in Hines, Rearick, Dorr, Travis and Marshall, which specialized in railroad law.

Hines died of a strokeinMerano, Italy on January 14, 1934.

Other service[edit]

Vice-president, New York City Bar Association; League of Nations.

Publications[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "WALKER D. HINES IS DEAD IN ITALY; Former Director-General of United States Railroads a Victim of Apoplexy. A POST-WAR ARBITRATOR Noted Lawyer Mediated for Allies and Central Powers in Shipping Disputes" (PDF). New York Times. January 15, 1934. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  • ^ Huddleston, Eugene L. (2002). Uncle Sam's Locomotives: The USRA and the Nation's Railroads. Indiana University Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-253-34086-3.
  • Further reading[edit]

    • William R. Doezema, "Walter D. Hines," in Railroads in the Age of Regulation, 1900-1980, ed. Keith L. Bryant Jr., a volume of the Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography (1988), pp. 201–12.
  • Robert T. Swaine, The Cravath Firm and Its Predecessors, 1819-1947, vol. 2 (3 vols., 1946–1948).
  • "Tells of Railroad Needs", The New York Times, October 5, 1916
  • "A Railroad Man Attacks the Commerce Commission", The New York Times, February 3, 1902
  • Grasty, Charles H. "One Man Diplomacy", The New York Times, July 30, 1922
  • External links[edit]


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