Bertram Dalley Tallamy (December 1, 1901 – September 14, 1989) was superintendent of the New York State Department of Public Works from 1948 to 1955.

He attended the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and graduated with a degree in civil engineering in 1925.

[1] He was the superintendent of the New York State Department of Public Works from 1948 to 1955 [1] where he worked alongside Edward Burton Hughes who held the post of Deputy Superintendent.

On October 12, 1956, he was named by Dwight D. Eisenhower as the Federal Highway Administrator.

[5] He died on September 14, 1989, at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., of kidney failure.