The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.

He advocated a tax on gasoline as a fair method of raising revenue for road construction. One of his biographers Alden Hatch has noted that having been born only twenty-two years after the end of the American Civil War he grew up in an era when "the Shenandoah Valley was still a place of genteel poverty . S.

His ancestors included William Byrd II of Westover Plantation who establiHarry F. Byrdd Richmond Robert "King" Carter of Corotoman a colonial governor and Pocahontas and he was the brother of famed aviator Richard Evelyn Byrd. S. He was the father of Harry F.