NEA Timeline

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  • Wallace Stevens appointed first Chair of NEA

  • Nancy Hanks appointed 2nd Chair of NEA

  • Livingston Biddle appointed 3rd Chair of NEA

  • Frank Hodsoll appointed fourth Chair of NEA

  • Hugh Southern appointed Acting Chair of NEA

  • Corcoran cancels Mapplethorpe exhibit

  • John Frohnmayer appointed 5th Chair of NEA

  • "NEA four" grants rejected by Frohnmayer

  • Jane Alexander sworn in as 6th Chair of NEA

  • Gingrich calls for abolishment of NEA

  • Kathryn Higgins appointed Acting Chair of NEA

  • Bill Ivey sworn in as 7th Chair of NEA

  • Michael P Hammond appointed 8th Chair of NEA

  • Dana Gioia appointed as Ninth Chair of NEA

  • Patrice Walker Powell appointed as Acting NEA Chair

  • Rocco Landesman appointed 10th Chair of NEA

  • Yosi Sergant/Breitbart Obama Controversy