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Deborah May Wiatt

January 2000

Activist, community supporter, and census taker.
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Pauline Gasca Valenciano

January 1989

Identifying problems and improving the census.
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Jeffrey Robert Nylund

January 1983

Census researcher and analyst.
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Guillermo A. �Bill� Camilo

January 1980

Activist and enumerator.
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Wayne H. Chattin and Sydnee C. Chattin

January 1980

Importance of the census from generation to generation.
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"William Edward Ohge, Jr."

September 1978

Career U.S. Census Bureau employee and disability activist.
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Jose Miquel Talavera-Toso III

January 1972

Veteran, advocate, and career Census Bureau employee.
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Mary Forte Grady

January 1969

Singer, community builder, and career census specialist.
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Eddie Hellmuth Willner

January 1968

Holocaust survivor, army officer, and 20-year census employee.
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Edith Hartenstein Basseches

January 1959

Refugee, community supporter, and census taker.
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Carmina Fernandez Young

September 1954

Statistician and workplace innovator.
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Donald E. Young

January 1950

Veterans and the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Homer Mekiana

January 1950

Iñupiat community leader and census enumerator.
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Virginia Hammond Lowder

January 1950

Disability employment advocate.
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Dorothy Paul Pritzker

January 1948

Veterans and the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Elmo Ellsworth Beach

January 1947

U.S. Census Bureau chief and disability employment advocate.
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"Gordon T. Boyd, Jr."

January 1946

Tuskegee airman and Census Bureau computer specialist.
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"Tranquilino ""Frank"" B. Aquino"

January 1946

Filipino economist.
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Irene Barnes Taeuber

January 1941

U.S. Census consultant, author, and demographic pioneer.
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Kenneth (Ken) W. Hechler

May 1940

U.S. Census Bureau section chief, combat historian, and congressman.
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Agueda Iglesias Johnston

April 1940

Chamorro teacher and leader.
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Iwao Milton Moriyama

January 1940

Improving life with the U.S. Census.
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"Wilbur ""Will"" J. Mathias"

January 1940

Veterans and the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Kathryn Dyakanoff Seller

January 1939

Aleut teacher, community leader, and census enumerator.
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Wilson H. Grabill

January 1934

Influential statistician and advocate for the deaf.
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Manuel Taitano Charfauros

January 1930

Chamorro teacher and leader.
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Elizabeth Lightfoot Broach

January 1929

Doctor, leader, and census supervisor.
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Frederick Slade

January 1928

Army officer, athlete, and Census Bureau manager.
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"David Chavez, Jr."

January 1920

New Mexican soldier, judge, and census clerk.
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"Jeremiah ""Jerry"" Seigafo Scanlan"

January 1920

Community leader and census interpreter.
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Minnie P. Lindsay

January 1920

A federal woman in the Lone Star State.
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Julie R. Jenney

January 1919

Lawyer, leader, and census supervisor.
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Marian Burck Smith

January 1919

A political matriarch.
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Ivanna Eudora Kean

December 1917

Census taker and lifelong educator.
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Wilfred Ethelbert Messer

January 1917

Census taker and civil servant.
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Mary Church Terrell

January 1914

NAACP founder, activist, and census office clerk.