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Expert Eugenics Agent of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization appointed.

Date: 1920

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Henry Laughlin, the first office holder, focuses on preserving "American genetic stock" by carefully inspecting and selecting all immigrants arriving at Ellis Island.