Charles Davenport

Charles Benedict Davenport (June 1, 1866 — February 18, 1944) was a prominent American biologist and eugenicist.

Biography

Davenport was born in Stamford, Connecticut. He went to Harvard, 1892 getting a PhD in biology in 1892. He married in 1894. He became director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1910, where he founded the Eugenics Record Office. He began to study human heredity, and a large amount of his efforts were later turned to order to promote eugenics. His 1911 book, Heredity in Relation to Eugenics, was a major work in the history of American eugenics.

External links

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bhdave.html
• Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race, (New York / London: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003);