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Previous Director Manuel D. Plotkin
Previous Director Manuel D. Plotkin
U.S. Census Bureau Director: 1977-1979
Before President Jimmy Carter appointed him to be director of the Census Bureau, Manuel Plotkin was a longstanding executive at Sears, Roebuck, and Company, serving as corporate researcher and planner, chief economist, and marketing research manager between 1953 and 1977.
Born in Russia in 1923, Plotkin immigrated at age 3 with his family to the U.S., eventually settling in Chicago. He graduated from Northwestern University and received an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
Plotkin spent two years working as a price economist for the Chicago regional office of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and another year working in that bureau's office in Washington, DC as a survey coordinator. He has also taught economics at Northwestern and Indiana Universities. At the time of his appointment, Plotkin was a member of the Census Bureau Advisory Committee of the American Marketing Association.
After Plotkin resigned, his predecessor, Vincent Barabba stepped in to reassume his role as director and lead 1980 census efforts. Plotkin died in 2011.
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