Devens, Charles (04/04/1820-01/07/1891)

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Summary

  • Occupation: Army officer, jurist, Attorney General
  • Number of Terms: 1
  • Committees/Roles: Declined to serve on board.

Subject

  • Devens, Charles
  • Board of Regents
  • Citizen Regent

Notes

  • Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Six volumes. Edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888-1889. Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1968; Dictionary of American Biography. Volumes 1-20. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928-1936; Who Was Who in America. A component volume of "Who's Who in American History." Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Revised Edition. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1967.
  • Images of this Regent can be found in the following repositories: Chesterwood; Harvard University Portrait Collection; RU 95, Smithsonian Institution Archives

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, [email protected]

Short Legal Citation

26 Stat. 673 (1890), J. Res. No. 23

Category

Smithsonian Board of Regents

Regent type

Citizen

State

Massachusetts

Date

Regent Tenure: 05/22/1890-09/20/1890

Topic

  • Lawyers
  • Regents

Place

Massachusetts

Form/Genre

Biographies

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