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Notable Alumni Kirby Puckett

Before he became famous on the baseball diamond, Kirby worked as a temporary census employee for the 1980 Census in Chicago.

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Notable Alumni Roger Herriot

Herriot served as chief of the Population Division from 1980 through 1985.

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Notable Alumni Shirley Kallek

As associate director for Economic Programs, Kallek made extraordinary contributions to the development of economic statistics at the Census Bureau.

Notable Alumni Shirley A. Chisholm

Shirley A. Chisholm broke conventions and wrote history as the first black woman elected to the United States Congress in 1968.

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Notable Alumni James F. Holmes

Previous acting director of the U.S. Census Bureau in 1998.

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Notable Alumni James Corbett

James Corbett developed Dual Independent Map Encoding (DIME) to resolve problems researchers were having while experimenting with Geographic Base Files (GBF).

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Notable Alumni Warren Mitofsky

Warren Mitofsky was an influential American political pollster.

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Notable Alumni Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.

Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. supervised the U.S. Census Bureau as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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Notable Alumni Murray Feshbach

Murray Feshbach is known for his study of the demographics of the Soviet Union and Russia.

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Notable Alumni Conrad Taeuber

As chief of the Population Division, Taeuber led the expansion of the Census Bureau's demographic program to respond to emerging public policy issues.

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Notable Alumni Julius Shiskin

Shiskin was instrumental in the development of a computerized method for seasonally adjusting economic time series.

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Notable Alumni Jay S. Siegel

Siegel became one of the "Founding Fathers" of demographic analysis (DA), a technique the Census Bureau first utilized as a part of the 1950 Census.

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Notable Alumni Bernard Malamud

A novelist and short-story writer, Malamud won two national Book Awards and a Pulitzer Prize.

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Notable Alumni Leslie Kish

In his 1965 book Survey Sampling, Kish summarized and developed the current theory of sampling and survey design.

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Notable Alumni W. Edwards Deming

Before his work at the Census Bureau, Deming used a brief stint at Bell Labs to develop a theory of quality management.

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Notable Alumni Halbert L. Dunn

Dunn was the leading figure in establishing a national vital statistics system in the United States.

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Notable Alumni Morris H. Hansen

Hansen was, perhaps, the most influential statistician in the evolution of survey methodology in the 20th century.

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Notable Alumni Lafayette Parker "Pick" Temple

Cowboy folksinger Lafayette Parker Temple (AKA "Pick Temple) was best known for "The Pick Temple Giant Ranch" television show.

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Notable Alumni Thelma L. Strabel

Thelma L. Strabel was an American novelist who specialized in tales of the American South and sea adventures.

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Notable Alumni W.E.B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois used his gifts as a social scientist and writer to fight for equal rights for black Americans throughout his life.

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Notable Alumni Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell achieved worldwide fame as the first person to patent the telephone on March 7, 1876.

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Notable Alumni Davis Rich Dewey

Davis Rich Dewey, Ph. D. was an American economist and statistician from Burlington, Vermont.

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Notable Alumni Thomas Commerford Martin

Martin was an London, England-born electrical engineer and editor who worked with Thomas A. Edison from 1877 to 1879.

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Notable Alumni John Wesley Langley

John Wesley Langley was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.

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Notable Alumni Joseph Adna Hill

Hill is credited with the conception of the Method of Equal Proportions for apportioning seats in the U.S. House of Representatives to the states.

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Notable Alumni Howard Sutherland

A representative and a senator from West Virginia, Sutherland graduated from Westminster College, Fulton, MO, in 1889.

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Notable Alumni Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell achieved worldwide fame as the first person to patent the telephone on March 7, 1876.

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Notable Alumni Cyrus Guernsey Pringle

As an agent for the U.S. Census Bureau, he explored the forests of New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New England to collect data for the 1884 Census.

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Notable Alumni Henry Gannett

Gannett's efforts to resolve difficulties caused by confusion of place names led to the establishment of the U.S. Board of Geographic Names in 1890.

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Notable Alumni Herman Hollerith

Herman Hollerith invented the electric tabulating machine.

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Notable Alumni Ivan Petrof

Ivan Petrof was a special agent for the Tenth Census of the United States (1880) in Alaska.

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Notable Alumni John Shaw Billings

Billings worked on the 1880 and 1890 censuses with pioneering work on vital statistics.