United States Senate Committee to Establish a University of the United States

Founded June 2, 1890 as a Select Committee, the Committee to Establish a University of the United States was an initiative of the United States Senate which became a Standing Committee on March 19, 1896.[1] During this time there was also a National University Committee outside of the Senate.

In 1897 the committee tried to pass a bill to create a University of the United States, and three years later it presented a bill to allow the Smithsonian Institution to give out degrees. Neither bill was successful. The committee was disbanded in 1921 as part of a "housecleaning" that got rid of several largely inactive or defunct committees which still officially existed.[2]

Chairmen of the Select Committee

Chairmen of the Standing Committee

References

  1. ^ Documents, United States Superintendent of (1896). Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States. U.S. Government Print. p. 637. Retrieved 2025-08-13.
  2. ^ "e/United States Senate Committee to Establish a University of the United States". Lexvo.org. Retrieved 2025-08-13.


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