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Date:
January 7, 1851
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
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.
