Badger Expelled from Board of Regents

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Summary

George E. Badger, a member of Congress from North Carolina, is expelled from the Smithsonian Board of Regents for "giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the Government," and Professor Louis Agassiz of Harvard University is appointed to the Board.

Subject

  • Agassiz, Louis 1807-1873
  • Badger, George Edmund 1795-1866
  • Board of Regents
  • Board of Regents

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 42. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1901, p. 632-3.

Contact information

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

Date

  • February 1863
  • Civil War, 1861-1865

Topic

  • Controversies
  • History

Place

United States

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