January
Lonnie Bunch Installed as Secretary
Year:
2019
Month:
november
Day:
1
Date:
Fri, 2019-11-01
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Lonnie G. Bunch III was installed as the fourteenth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution on November 1, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. in the Arts and Industries Building. Bunch is the first African American leader in the institution's 173-year history. Bunch is also the first historian to take the position.