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Incorporators of the NAS
The following fifty scientists were the charter members of the NAS:
Louis AGASSIZ, 1807-1873
Massachusetts (First NAS Foreign Secretary, 1863-1873)
John H. ALEXANDER, 1812-1867
Maryland
Stephen ALEXANDER, 1806-1883
Maryland
Alexander Dallas BACHE, 1806-1867
At large (First NAS President, 1863-1867)
Frederick Augustus Porter BARNARD, 1809-1889
At large (Foreign Secretary, 1874-1880; brother of John Gross Barnard)
John Gross BARNARD, 1815-1882
Massachusetts; U.S. Army (Brother of F.A.P. Barnard)
William Holmes Chambers BARTLETT, 1804-1893
Missouri; U.S. Military Academy
Alexis CASWELL, 1799-1877
Rhode Island
William CHAUVENET, 1820-1870
Missouri (Vice President, 1868-1871)
John Hutington Crane COFFIN, 1815-1890
Maine; U.S. Naval Academy (Home Secretary, 1878-1881; Treasurer 1881-1887)
John Adolphus Bernhard DAHLGREN, 1809-1870
Pennsylvania; U.S. Navy (Resigned May 1863)
James Dwight DANA, 1813-1895
Connecticut (First Vice President, 1863-1865)
Charles Henry DAVIS, 1807-1877
Massachusetts; U.S. Navy
George ENGELMAN, 1809-1884
Missouri
John Fries FRAZER, 1812-1872
Pennsylvania
Wolcott GIBBS, 1822-1908
Massachusetts (First Home Secretary, 1863-1872; Vice President, 1872-1878; Foreign Secretary, 1886-1895; President, 1895-1900)
James Melville GILISS, 1811-1865
Washington, D.C.; U.S. Navy
Augustus Addison GOULD, 1805-1866
Massachusetts
Benjamin Apthorp GOULD, 1824-1896
Massachusetts
Asa GRAY, 1810-1888
Massachusetts (Resigned January 1867)
Arnold GUYOT, 1807-1884
New Jersey
James HALL, 1811-1898
New York
Joseph HENRY, 1799-1878
At Large (Second Vice President, 1866-1868; President, 1868-1878)
Julius Erasmus HILGARD, 1825-1890
At Large; Illinois (Home Secretary, 1872-1878)
Edward HITCHCOCK, 1793-1864
Massachusetts
Joseph Stillman HUBBARD, 1823-1863
Connecticut; U.S. Naval Observatory
Andrew Atkinson HUMPHRIES, 1810-1883
Pennsylvania; U.S. Army
John Lawrence LE CONTE, 1825-1883
Pennsylvania, U.S. Army
Joseph LEIDY, 1823-1891
Pennsylvania
J. Peter LESLEY, 1819-1903
Pennsylvania
Miers Fisher LONGSTRETH, 1819-1891
Pennsylvania
Dennis Hart MAHAN, 1802-1871
Virginia; U.S. Military Academy
John Strong NEWBERRY, 1822-1892
Ohio
Hubert Anson NEWTON, 1830-1896
Connecticut
Benjamin PEIRCE, 1809-1880
Massachusetts (Resigned 1877)
John RODGERS, 1812-1882
Indiana; U.S. Navy
Fairman ROGERS, 1833-1900
Pennsylvania (First Treasurer, 1863-1881)
Robert Empie ROGERS, 1813-1884
Pennsylvania (Brother of William Barton Rogers)
William Barton ROGERS, 1804-1882
Massachusetts (President, 1879-1882; brother of Robert Empie Rogers)
Lewis Morris RUTHERFURD, 1816-1892
New York
Joseph SAXTON, 1799-1873
At Large
Benjamin SILLIMAN Sr. ,1779-1864
Connecticut
Benjamin SILLIMAN Jr., 1816-1885
Connecticut
Theodore STRONG, 1790-1869
New Jersey
John TORREY, 1796-1873
New York
Joseph Gilbert TOTTEN, 1788-1864
Connecticut; U.S. Army
Josiah Dwight WHITNEY, 1819-1896
California
Joseph WINLOCK, 1826-1875
Kentucky; U.S. Nautical Almanac
Jeffries WYMAN, 1814-1874
Massachusetts
U.A. BOYDEN
Massachusetts (Refused appointment)
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