January
Regents Elect Charles Doolittle Walcott as Fourth Secretary
Year:
1907
Month:
january
Day:
23
Date:
Wed, 1907-01-23
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Charles Doolittle Walcott is elected the fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and serves a twenty year term from 1907 to 1927. Walcott was a well-known paleontologist and explorer, who had succeeded John Wesley Powell as director of the U.S. Geological Survey.