Leonard B. Carmichael is elected the seventh Secretary of the Smithsonian by the Board of Regents on April 9, 1952. He serves an eleven-year term from 1953 to 1964. He is the first Secretary selected from outside the Institution. For fourteen years prior to his appointment, he was president of Tufts College. More - https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_766.