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 1894. He became director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 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);