Horace Sylvan Stansel (November 5, 1888 – April 4, 1936)[1] was an American civil engineer and politician, remembered chiefly as the original architect of Mississippi's highway system.

In 1928, Stansel was appointed by then-Governor Theodore G. Bilbo as the head of a committee to investigate the state's highway needs.

[3] Stansel placed his own touch on the system: the intersection of the state highways in Ruleville is at the site of his family home.

He progressed rapidly in prestige during the Great Depression and was elected Speaker of the House in 1936, shortly before his death from a heart attack.

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