The Board of Regents 95 



RANDALL LEE GIBSON. 



LOUISIANA. 



Regent on behalf of the Senate, appointed December 19, 1887; reappointed 



March 28, 1889. 



Born in Spring Hill, Kentucky, September 10, 1832; died in Hot Springs, 

 Arkansas, December 15, 1892. Educated in Lexington, Kentucky, and 

 Terre Bonne, Louisiana. A. B., Yale, 1853. Graduated in law, University 

 of Louisiana, 1855. Declined Secretaryship of Legation to Spain, 1855. 

 Captain, Colonel, and General in Confederate Army. Member of U. S. 

 House of Representatives from Louisiana, December 6, 1875-March 3, 1S83. 

 Member of U. S. Senate from I-ouisiana, March 4, 1883-March 3, 1892. 

 President of the Board of Administration of the Tulane Educational Fund. 

 Trustee of the Peabody Educational Fund. Administrator of the Howard 

 Memorial Library, 



ASA GRAY. 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



Regent elected by Congress, January 19, 1874: reelected December 19, 1879, 



and December 26, 1885. 



Born in Paris, New York, November 18, 1810; died in Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts, January 30, 1888. Educated in Fairfield Academy, New York, 

 1825-29. M. D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, Fairfield, 1831. 

 A. M., Harvard, 1844. LL. D., Hamilton, i860. Harvard, 1875; McGill, 

 1884; University of Michigan, 1887; and Edinburgh, 1887. D. Sc, Cambridge, 

 1887. D. C. L., Oxford, 1887. Botanist to United States Exploring Expedition, 

 1834-37. Curator New York Lyceum of Natural History, 1836. Elected 

 Professor of Botany and Zoology, University of Michigan (declined), 1838, 

 Professor of Natural History, Harvard, 1842-73. Curator of the Herbarium, 

 Harvard, 1873. Original Member of National Academy of Sciences, 1863. 

 President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, i863-'73. Pres- 

 ident of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1872. 



GEORGE GRAY. 



DELAWARE. 



Regent on behalf of the Senate, appointed December 20, 1892; reappomted March 



20, 1893. 



Born in New Castle, Delaware, May 4, 1840. A. B., Princeton, 1859. 

 A. M., Princeton, 1862. LL. D., Princeton, 1889. Studied law in Harvard. 

 Admitted to the Bar, 1863. Attorney-General of Delaware, 1879-85. Mem- 

 ber of LT. S. Senate from Delaware, March 19, 1885-March 3, 1899. 



HANNIBAL HAMLIN. 



MAINE. 



Regent ex officio, as Vice-President of the United States, March 4. 1 861 -March 4, 

 1865. Regent on behalf of the Senate, appointed January iS, 1870. 



Born in Paris, Maine, August 27, 1809; died in Bangor, Maine, July 4, 

 1891. Educated in Hebron Academy, Maine. LL. D., Waterville (now 

 Colby) University, 1859. Admitted to the Bar, Paris, Maine, 1833. Mem- 



