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[[Image:Floyd Dominy.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Floyd Dominy]]

'''Floyd Elgin Dominy''' (December 24, 1909 [[Adams County, Nebraska]] &ndash; April 20, 2010 [[Boyce, Virginia]]) was appointed commissioner of the [[United States Bureau of Reclamation]] from May 1, 1959, to December 1, 1969, by [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Floyd E. Dominy papers|url=https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wyu-ah02129.xml|access-date=June 22, 2021|website=rmoa.unm.edu}}</ref> Dominy joined the Bureau in 1946. He was the assistant commissioner from 1957 to 1958. He was responsible for building [[Glen Canyon Dam]] and the creation of [[Lake Powell]] behind it. He died in [[Boyce, Virginia]], where he had lived since at least 1990.<ref>Marston, Ed (August 28, 2000). [https://www.hcn.org/issues/184/5980 "Floyd Dominy: An encounter with the West's undaunted dam-builder"]. ''[[High Country News]]''. Retrieved May 3, 2018.</ref>

Dominy's father and grandfather were homesteaders, and his upbringing was marked by humble circumstances. He graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1933 with a degree in agricultural economics.<ref>Donald J. Pisani, 2002. "A Tale of Two Commissioner: Frederick H. Newell and Floyd Dominy," presented at History of the Bureau of Reclamation: A Symposium, Las Vegas, NV, June 18.</ref> Not long after graduation, he became a county agricultural extension agent in Campbell County, Wyoming, where his enthusiasm for dams endeared him to local farmers and ranchers.

Dominy was a strong advocate for use of the [[Colorado River]] and other water resources of the west for agriculture and development, in opposition to the growing [[environmental movement]]. He was the director of several projects like the [[Colorado River Storage Project]], Colorado River Basin Project, [[Pick–Sloan Missouri Basin Program|Missouri River Basin Project]], Columbia River Basin Project, California Central Valley Project, and the [[Mekong|Mekong River Basin]] Project in Thailand.<ref name=":0" /> 

Dominy was a main character in two non-fiction books about water management the American west: ''[[Cadillac Desert]]'' by [[Marc Reisner]] and ''[[Encounters with the Archdruid]]'' by [[John McPhee]]. McPhee arranged a [[whitewater rafting]] trip down the Colorado River with Dominy and [[David Brower]], a prominent environmentalist and founder of [[Friends of the Earth]], and the book highlights their opposing views of the river and its uses.