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Agency History
Learn more about our facilities, our innovations, and the who played a role in shaping the U.S. Census Bureau.
Census Records & Family History
The United States has collected data about its population since 1790 and continues to collect data every 10 years. Learn how to find previous census records.
Historical Censuses & Surveys
Learn how the census expanded over time from a simple headcount in 1790, to over 200 different surveys today.
Galleries & Archives
View publications, maps, and more that provide information about the history of the Census Bureau and its programs.

Census Supervisors and Employees

Deborah May Wiatt
Activist, community supporter, and census taker.
Pauline Gasca Valenciano
Identifying problems and improving the census.
Jeffrey Robert Nylund
Census researcher and analyst.
Guillermo A. “Bill” Camilo
Activist and enumerator.
Wayne H. Chattin and Sydnee C. Chattin
Importance of the census from generation to generation.
William Edward Ohge, Jr.
Career U.S. Census Bureau employee and disability activist.
Jose Miquel Talavera-Toso III
Veteran, advocate, and career Census Bureau employee.
Mary Forte Grady
Singer, community builder, and career census specialist.
Eddie Hellmuth Willner
Holocaust survivor, army officer, and 20-year census employee.
Edith Hartenstein Basseches
Refugee, community supporter, and census taker.
Carmina Fernandez Young
Statistician and workplace innovator.
Donald E. Young
Veterans and the U.S. Census Bureau.
Homer Mekiana
Iñupiat community leader and census enumerator.
Virginia Hammond Lowder
Disability employment advocate.
Dorothy Paul Pritzker
Veterans and the U.S. Census Bureau.
Elmo Ellsworth Beach
U.S. Census Bureau chief and disability employment advocate.
Gordon T. Boyd, Jr.
Tuskegee airman and Census Bureau computer specialist.
Tranquilino "Frank" B. Aquino
Filipino economist.
Irene Barnes Taeuber
U.S. Census consultant, author, and demographic pioneer.
Kenneth (Ken) W. Hechler
U.S. Census Bureau section chief, combat historian, and congressman.
Agueda Iglesias Johnston
Chamorro teacher and leader.
Iwao Milton Moriyama
Improving life with the U.S. Census.
Wilbur "Will" J. Mathias
Veterans and the U.S. Census Bureau.
Kathryn Dyakanoff Seller
Aleut teacher, community leader, and census enumerator.
Wilson H. Grabill
Influential statistician and advocate for the deaf.
Manuel Taitano Charfauros
Chamorro teacher and leader.
Elizabeth Lightfoot Broach
Doctor, leader, and census supervisor.
Frederick Slade
Army officer, athlete, and Census Bureau manager.
David Chavez, Jr.
New Mexican soldier, judge, and census clerk.
Jeremiah "Jerry" Seigafo Scanlan
Community leader and census interpreter.
Minnie P. Lindsay
A federal woman in the Lone Star State.
Julie R. Jenney
Lawyer, leader, and census supervisor.
Marian Burck Smith
A political matriarch.
Ivanna Eudora Kean
Census taker and lifelong educator.
Wilfred Ethelbert Messer
Census taker and civil servant.
Mary Church Terrell
NAACP founder, activist, and census office clerk.
Page Last Revised - October 29, 2023
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