Eugene Lindsay Bishop served as the Commissioner for the Tennessee State Health Department from 1924 to 1935, and later as the Director of the Health and Safety Department of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) from 1935 to 1951. It was here where he worked to develop the strategy for controlling the population of mosquitos that transmitted malaria in the Tennessee Valley. The technique he developed of raising and lowering the levels of the lakes maintained by the TVA proved quite effective and was soon adopted around the world. He was awarded the Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service in 1950, largely in recognition of this effort. Dr. Bishop was born in Nashville on April 3, 1886, and received his medical degree from Vanderbilt University in 1914. He later received a Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins in 1923. Bishop died in Nashville February 27, 1951, less than a year after receiving the Lasker Award. He was 64.