American Eugenics Society
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{{Infobox Organization
| name = Society for the Study of Social Biology
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| size = (image size, optional, default 200px)
| caption = Current logo of the ''Society for the Study of Social Biology''
| formation = [[1922]]
| location = [[United States]]
| language = (official languages)
| leader_title = President
| leader_name = [[S. Jay Olshansky]]
| website = http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~crimmin/sssb/index.html
}}
The '''American Eugenics Society''' (AES) was a society established in [[1922]] to promote [[eugenics]] in the [[United States]].
It was the result of the Second International Conference on Eugenics ([[New York]], [[1921]]). The founders included [[Madison Grant]], [[Harry H. Laughlin]], [[Irving Fisher]], [[Henry Fairfield Osborn]], and [[Henry Crampton]]. The organization started by promoting racial betterment, eugenic health, and genetic education through public lectures, exhibits at county fairs ea., but under the direction of [[Frederick Osborn]], started to place greater focus on issues of population control, genetics, and, later, medical genetics. In [[1972]] the AES was reorganized and renamed in "''The Society for the Study of Social Biology''"
== List of Presidents ==
* [[Irving Fisher]] 1922-26 (Political Economy, Yale University)
* [[Roswell H. Johnson]] 1926-27 (Cold Spring Harbor, Univ. of Pittsburgh)
* [[Harry H. Laughlin]] 1927-29 (Eugenics Record Office)
* [[C. C. Little]] 1929 (Pres., Michigan University)
* [[Henry Pratt Fairchild]] 1929-31 (Sociology, New York University)
* [[Henry Perkins]] 1931-34 (Zoology, University of Vermont)
* [[Ellsworth Huntington]] 1934-38 (Geography, Yale University)
* [[Samuel Jackson Holmes]] 1938-40 (Zoology, University of California)
* [[Maurice Bigelow]] 1940-45 (sex education, Columbia University)
* [[Frederick Osborn]] 1946-52 (Osborn-Dodge-Harriman RR connection)
* [[Harry L. Shapiro]] 1956-63 (American Museum of Natural History)
* [[Clyde V. Kiser]] 1964-68 (differential fertility, Milbank Memorial Fund)
* [[Dudley Kirk]] 1969-72 (Demographer, Stanford University)
* [[Bruce K. Eckland]] 1972-75 (Sociology, University of North Carolina)
* [[L. Erlenmeyer-Kimling]] 1976-78 (Genetic Psychiatry)
* [[Lindzey Gardner]] 1979-81 (Center for Advanced Study, Behavioral Sciences)
* [[John L. Fuller]] 1982-83 (Behavioral genetics)
* [[Michael Teitelbaum]] 1985-1990 (US Congress staff; US population policy)
* [[Robert Retherford]] 1991-1994 (East-West Institute, Hawaii; funded by AID)
* [[Joseph Lee Rodgers]] 1994, 1995 (family influences)
* Current: [[S. Jay Olshansky]]
== See also ==
* [[British Eugenics Society]]
* [[Human Betterment Foundation]]
==External links==
* [http://www.all.org/abac/aes.txt American Eugenics Society 1922-1994] via American Bioethics Advisory Commission
* [http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~crimmin/sssb/index.html The Society for the Study of Social Biology]
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