Dan Ryan Jr.

Daniel B. "Dan" Ryan Jr. (1894– April 8, 1961) was a Chicago insurance broker and served as President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners from 1954 to his death. Ryan was a Democrat. The Dan Ryan Expressway was named in his memory.

Life

Ryan attended De La Salle Institute and Kent College of Law. When his father, Dan Ryan Sr., died in 1923, Ryan was elected to fill out his term on the Cook County Board of Commissioners. With the exception of 1926–1930, he sat on the board until his death and served as the board president for the final years of his life.

Highways

Ryan was a promoter of superhighways for the Chicago area, but financing was difficult before creation of the Interstate Highway System, and in 1955 Ryan engineered an ambitious bond issue program to jump-start construction of expressways in Cook County.[1] Dan Ryan Senior hailed from Dundrum in Co. Tipperary, where his family were known as the Ryan Larrys (In Tipperary there were so many Ryans that they had to assume second names to differentiate the different families)

References

  1. ↑ "Daniel Ryan (obituary)". Cook County Highways: 3. April 1961.
Preceded by
William N. Erickson		 Cook County Board President
1954–1961		 Succeeded by
John J. Duffy


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