Charles D. Walcott Elected Secretary
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PrintCharles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) is elected the fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He serves a twenty-year term from 1907 to 1927. Walcott was a well-known geologist and explorer, who had succeeded John Wesley Powell as director of the U.S. Geological Survey. The Regents had earlier elected Henry Fairfield Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History as Secretary on December 4, 1906, but Osborn apparently declined the position.
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Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
January 23, 1907