Chief Justice Taney Elected Chancellor

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Summary

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney is elected Chancellor, the office being vacant by the elevation of Vice President Millard Fillmore to the Presidency. Taney is the first Chancellor who is elected as Chief Justice, rather than as Vice President.

Subject

  • Fillmore, Millard 1800-1874
  • Taney, Roger Brooke 1777-1864
  • Board of Regents
  • Chancellor of the Smithsonian Board of Regents
  • United States President
  • Board of Regents
  • United States. Office of the Vice President

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

  • Goode, George Brown, ed. The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896, The History of Its First Half Century. Washington, D.C.: De Vinne Press, 1897., p. 834
  • 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: Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1879., p. 69

Contact information

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

Date

January 7, 1851

Topic

  • Firsts
  • Judges

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