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Charles Doolittle Walcott is elected the fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He serves a twenty-year term from 1907 to 1927. Before his election, Walcott was a well-known geologist and explorer who had previously succeeded Major John Wesley Powell as director of the U.S. Geological Survey. More - https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_190.
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Wednesday, January 23, 1907
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