Paul L. Sitton of Sciences Academy; 1st Transit Chief
Paul L. Sitton, the first administrator of the federal Urban Mass Transportation Administration and since 1969 a senior official of the National Academy of Sciences, died May 27 at age 60 of liver complications.
Sitton had spent more than 30 years in government service and in the 1960s helped create the Transportation Department. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him in 1968 as the first head of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, which oversees federal transit programs.
A year later Sitton joined the National Academy of Sciences as an assistant to the academy’s president.
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