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### Notable Alumni

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                          - U.S. Marshals
                          - Barbara Ann Bailar
                          - James F. Holmes
                          - Alexander Graham Bell
                          - W.E.B. Du Bois
                          - Shirley A. Chisholm
                          - Kirby Puckett
                          - Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.
                          - James Corbett
                          - Herman Hollerith
                          - Cyrus Guernsey Pringle
                          - Thomas Commerford Martin
                          - John Wesley Langley
                          - Ivan Petrof
                          - Warren Mitofsky
                          - Halbert L. Dunn
                          - Davis Rich Dewey
                          - Leslie Kish
                          - Joseph Adna Hill
                          - Lafayette Parker "Pick" Temple
                          - Murray Feshbach
                          - Thelma L. Strabel
                          - Howard Sutherland
                          - John Shaw Billings
                          - W. Edwards Deming
                          - Henry Gannett
                          - Morris H. Hansen
                          - Roger Herriot
                          - Shirley Kallek
                          - Bernard Malamud
                          - Julius Shiskin
                          - Conrad Taeuber

## U.S. Marshals

U.S. marshals and their assistants conducted the population, economic, and agriculture censuses from the 1790 through 1870 Censuses.  Specially-hired and trained enumerators began collecting census data beginning in 1880.

Learn more about the marshals who conducted the United States censuses from 1790 through 1870 at the U.S. Marshals Service Website.
| Introductory Text[477KB, PDF]William Blount, Southwest Territory[572KB, PDF]Henry Dearborn, Maine (1790)[695KB, PDF]Allan McLane, Delaware (1790)[535KB, PDF]John Skinner, North Carolina (1790)[606KB, PDF]Nathaniel Ramsay, Maryland (1790)[507KB, PDF]William Smith, New York (1790)[604KB, PDF]Thomas Lowrey, New Jersey (1790)[510KB, PDF]Concluding Text[505KB, PDF]Robert Forsyth, Georgia (1790)[678KB, PDF]Edward Carrington, Virginia (1790)[480KB, PDF]Philip Bradley, Connecticut (1790)[600KB, PDF]Jonathan Jackson, Massachusetts (1790)[554KB, PDF]Samuel McDowell, Kentucky (1790)[554KB, PDF]Lewis R. Morris, Vermont (1790)[536KB, PDF]Lewis R. Morris, Vermont (1790)[536KB, PDF]Thomas Lowrey, New Jersey (1790)[510KB, PDF]William Peck, Rhode Island (1790)[546KB, PDF]Isaac Huger, South Carolina (1790)[861KB, PDF]Clement Biddle, Pennsylvania (1790)[861KB, PDF]John Parker, New Hampshire (1790)[528KB, PDF]William Peck, Rhode Island (1790)[546KB, PDF] |
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