Joseph Bartlett Eastman

Joseph Bartlett Eastman (June 26, 1882 – 1944) was a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission from 1919 until his death in 1944.

He prepared at Pottsville Area High School in Pennsylvania, then matriculated to Amherst College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in the class of 1904.

From 1915 to 1918 he was a member of the Public Service Commission of Massachusetts; in 1918 he was chairman of the War Committee National Association of Railway and Public Utility Commissioners; and he was appointed a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1919.

In 1933, he was nominated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, and confirmed by the Senate, to the position of Federal Coordinator of Transportation.

The Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College holds his papers.