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Museum Board

To provide expertise to the country’s only museum dedicated to telling the story of our nation, the National Museum of American History has established a board. Its function is to advise the director, to raise funds to support major Museum initiatives and exhibitions, and to recruit new board members from around the country to support the Museum’s mission.

The board currently has twenty-seven members, including noted historians, business and community leaders, and members of philanthropic organizations.

Board Members
A Tribute to Ambassador Charles T. Manatt, 1936-2011
A Tribute to Dick Darman, 1943-2008
David E. Behring
NMAH Board Alumnus; President, Wheelchair Foundation
Michael Beschloss
NMAH Board Alumnus; Historian and Author
Curt Bradbury
NMAH Board Alumnus; Chief Operating Officer & Director, Stephens, Inc.
Kathyrn C. Brown
NMAH Board Member; Senior Vice President, Public Policy Development and Corporate Responsibility, Verizon Communications
Ellsworth H. Brown, Ph.D
NMAH Board Member; Director, Wisconsin Historical Society
Charles F. Bryan Jr., Ph.D.
NMAH Board Alumnus; Independent Consultant
H.P. “Pete” Claussen
NMAH Board Alumnus; Chairman & CEO, Gulf & Ohio Railways, Inc.
The Honorable Thad Cochran (R-MS)
NMAH Board Member; Smithsonian Regent; United States Senator
David M. Fields
NMAH Board Alumnus; Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Bayer Properties, LLC
Lesley Herrmann, Ph.D.
NMAH Board Member; Executive Director, The Gilder Lehrman Institute
Irene Hirano
NMAH Board Alumnus; Executive Advisor, U.S. Japan Council
Ambassador Philip Lader
NMAH Board Member, Chairman, Nominating Committee; Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley
Francine LeFrak
NMAH Board Alumnus; President, Whole Picture LeFrak Productions
Dorothy Lemelson
NMAH Board Alumnusi; President & Director, The Lemelson Foundation
Elizabeth (Betty) Sutton MacMillan
NMAH Board Alumnus; President, WEM Foundation
Jack Martin
NMAH Board Member; Chairman, Public Strategies, Inc.
The Honorable Doris Matsui
NMAH Board Member; United States House of Representatives
David McCullough
NMAH Board Member; Historian and Author
James Mellor
NMAH Board Alumnus; Chairman, USEC
Barry Meyer
NMAH Board Member; Chairman & CEO, Warner Bros.
Timothy J. O’Neill
NMAH Board Member, Chairman, Development Committee; Global Co-Head of Investment Management Division, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Libby Haight O'Connell, Ph.D.
NMAH Board Alumnus; Senior Vice President, Corporate Outreach and Chief Historian, A&E Television Networks
Abbe Raven
NMAH Board Member; President & CEO, A&E Television Networks
John F.W. Rogers
NMAH Board Member, Chairman, Advisory Board; Managing Director, Secretary, Board of Directors, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Matthew K. Rose
NMAH Board Member; President & CEO, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation
Elihu Rose, Ph.D.
NMAH Board Alumnus; Partner, Rose Associates, Inc.
David M. Rubenstein
NMAH Board Member; Co-Founder & Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
Vicki Ruiz, Ph.D.
NMAH Board Member; Professor of history and Chicano/Latino studies; Director, University of California, Irvine’s Humanities Out There outreach program
The Honorable Frederick J. Ryan, Jr.
NMAH Board Member; President & COO, Allbritton Communications Company
The Honorable Ivan Selin
Founding Chairman, NMAH Board Alumnus; CEO, Phoenix International
The Honorable Rodney E. Slater
NMAH Board Alumnus; Partner, Patton Boggs, LLP
Ambassador Nicholas Taubman
NMAH Board Member; President, Mozart Investments
Riley K. Temple
NMAH Board Alumnus; Temple Strategies
Bob Uhler
NMAH Board Member; Chairman & CEO, MWH Global Inc.
James G. Vella
NMAH Board Member; President, Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services
Gail Berry West
NMAH Board Member; Former Director, Government Relations, Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
Marvin D. Williams
NMAH Board Alumnus; President, Aptus, LLC
Judy Woodruff
NMAH Board Member; The PBS NewsHour
Tae Yoo
NMAH Board Alumnus; Vice President of Corporate Philanthropy, Cisco Systems, Inc.
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