First Meetings of Board of Regents

Summary

The fifteen-member Board of Regents holds its first meetings. Vice President George Mifflin Dallas of Pennsylvania is elected Chancellor of the Institution. Members of the board include: the Vice President of the United States, the Chief Justice of the United States, and the Mayor of the city of Washington, all ex officio members; three members each of the U.S. Senate and House; and six citizen members. Four committees are established, an Executive Committee, a committee to prepare a plan to carry out the provisions of the Act of Organization, a committee to investigate formation of a library, and a Building Committee.

Subject

• Dallas, George Mifflin 1792-1864
• Board of Regents
• Chancellor of the Smithsonian Board of Regents)
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL)
• United States. Office of the Vice President

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

• Goode, 1897, on page 58, says the Board of Regents first met on 6 September.
• Goode, George Brown, ed. The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896, The History of Its First Half Century. Washington, D.C.: De Vinne Press, 1897, p. 53, 58, 833.
• Oehser, Paul H. The Smithsonian Institution. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970, p. 26.
• Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, volume 18, number 329. "Journals of the Proceedings of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1846-76, Reports of Committees, Statistics, Etc." ed. by William J. Rhees. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1879, p. 1-5.

Contact information

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

Date

September 7-9, 1846

Topic

• Major Events in Smithsonian History.)
• Firsts
• Architecture
• Committees
• Libraries
• Mayors
• Buildings
• Washington (D.C.)--Mayor

Place

Washington (D.C.)

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