Brookings, Robert Somers (01/22/1850-11/15/1932)

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Summary

  • Occupation: Philanthropist
  • Number of Terms: 2

Subject

  • Brookings, Robert Somers
  • Board of Regents
  • Citizen Regent

Category

Smithsonian Board of Regents

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Regent type

Citizen

State

Missouri

Short Legal Citation

  • 40 Stat. 1053 (1919), ch. 6
  • 43 Stat. 821 (1925), ch. 171

Notes

American National Biography. 24 volumes. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999; Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders. By John N. Ingham. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983; Dictionary of American Biography. Supplement 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944; Who Was Who in America. A component volume of "Who's Who in American History." Volume 1, 1897-1942. Chicago: A. N. Marquis Co., 1943.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

Regent Tenure: 01/07/1919-01/07/1931

Topic

  • Regents
  • Missouri

Place

Missouri

Form/Genre

Biographies

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