A. Ross Eckler
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Albert Ross Eckler (May 22, 1901 – March 14, 1991) served as Deputy Director of the United States Census Bureau from 1949 to 1965, and its Director from 1965 until 1969. He was the first career employee ever to become director of the agency.
Career
Eckler was born in Van Hornesville, New York in 1901 and lived on a farm until he attended Hamilton College. He then earned a master's degree and a PhD at Harvard University in 1934. Eckler joined the Census Bureau in 1939 as chief of economic statistics in the Population Division. He then became assistant chief of the Population Division and then the Special Surveys Division and chief social scientist. In 1949, he became Deputy Director and in 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him director. He worked as director until 1969 and later died in Maryland in 1991.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
He authored The Bureau of the Census (Template:ISBN), and was president of the American Statistical Association. He is also the father of logologist and centenarian researcher A. Ross Eckler, Jr.
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- 1901 births
- 1991 deaths
- American statisticians
- Presidents of the American Statistical Association
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association
- United States Census Bureau people
- Harvard University alumni
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- Hamilton College (New York) alumni
- Mathematicians from New York (state)
- Lyndon B. Johnson administration personnel
- Directors of the United States Census Bureau