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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
John Marshall Pogue M.D.

Born 21st October, 1899, Grant, lowa AB (Nebraska), LLB -- later JD (Michigan), SJD (Harvard), FRAeS (London), FRSA (London,.Benjamin.Franklin Fellow). Died 10 May 2003, Baltimore, MD, age 103 years, 6 months, 19 days. Interred with Military Honors 16 May 2003, Quantico National Cemetery (World War I Volunteer Infantry Veteran).

Docent-at-downtown-National Air and Space Museum, 1982-1995. Delivered Lindbergh Memorial Lecture at NASM on 23 May 1991. Delivered Wright Brothers Memorial Lecture at NASA on 16 December 1999. Earned JSD (Doctor of Juridical Science) degree at Harvard Law School, 1927.

Pioneer of civil aviation. Chairman of US Civil Aeronautics Board, January 1942 to June 1946. Represented USA at 1944 Chicago International Civil Aviation Conference. 0riginated idea of International Air Transit Treaty (in force now). Major force in establishment of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal. Architect of commercial aviation policy for.. USA. Founding Father of The International-Civil Aviation System.

In 1946 worked, with British to establish bilateral Anglo-American Bermuda Air Transport Agreement, a worldwide model for decades. In 1946, founded own law firm, becoming Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue after a merger, with him as Washington, DC, Managing Partner. Counsel for Alaska, Western, Delta, Eastern, Pan Am, and other airlines.

Retired from Aviation Law in 1981. First recipient of L. Welch Pogue Award for Aviation Achievement, as established by Aviation Week Group (McGraw-Hill) in his honor in 1994, and awarded annually.

His Honors and publications are listed in "The International Who's Who" (through 67th edition, 2004, published by Europa Publications, London, UK) and in "Who Was Who in America, With World Notables 2002-2004," Volume XV, 2004.

Resident of Chevy Chase, MD, since 1938, of Kenwood (within Chevy Chase) since 1956.

Recipient of many awards and trophies, including Donald D. Engen Aero Club Trophy for Aviation Excellence in 2001, as well as Golden Eagle Award of Society of Senior Aerospace Executives in 1988, Elder Statesman of Aviation Award of National Aeronautic Association in 1993 (of which Association he was President 1947), and McGraw Hill Aviation Week Group Laurel Legend Award and named to its Laureates Hall of Fame in 2002. Fellow of Royal Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, Benjamin Franklin Fellow of Royal Society of Arts (UK), Honorary Member AIAA. Honorary Member Aero Club of Washington. Honorary Member Wings Club (NYC), Honorary Member Society of Senior Aerospace Executives, Honorary Member HAI, Honorary Fellow American Helicopter Society.

With razor-sharp mind, as sharp as a tack, to the end, active in studying, writing about, and delivering lectures about aviation to the last. America's aviation champion. Called "Mr Aviation" by Donald D. Engen, late Director of NASM. In the words of Shakespeare, "We shall not look upon his like again."

Editor's note: Additional information about Lloyd Pogue is in the files of the National Air and Space Society.