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agreement is fair to the public, to the
employees of the car companies and the
stockholders. Swanton ran on a plat
| form based on the merger plan of the
public utilities committee of the fedora
ton, which proposes number of i'm
| portGnt notifications in the agreement
as now drawn.
Havenncr is strong advocate of the
| appointment of commission TO study
the fiscal relations between the Fed
eral and District Governments; he
| favors both national representation and
local suffrage for the District and an
elective school board He also believes
that the Citizens Advisory Council
over which he will preside for the COM
ing year, should be elected by the cit
liens of the District rather than the
delegates to the federation and that its
activities should be expanded
Dr.. Havenner was born in Silver Hill,
Prince Georges County, Md, on Sep
tember %, 1866. He is the son of Wal
ter Samuel and Elizabeth Anne
tThompson) Havenner. He moved to
the District during infancy and has
lived here ever since. He was educated
in the public schools and business COL
leges. and obtained the degree Of M. D..
from Howard University Medical School
in 1888.
At 20 he was appointed to a posi-
ton in the Government Printing Office,
where he was successfully composltor,
proof reader, copy editor, reviser and
press reviSer. In 1901 he went to the
Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury
Department.
In 1908 DR.. Havenner assisted George
B. Cortelyou in organizing the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor. He was
a member Of the joint committee Of the
Treasury Department created to draw
the line of demarcation defining the
work that should be taken over by the
bureaus transferred from the Treasury
to the new departments. From its start,
in 1918, Or. Havenner was chief Of the
departments Bureau of Publications.
In 1909, by direction of President
Roosevelt, Or. Havenner investigated
the Government Printing Office. In
1915 he represented the Department Of
Commerce at the San Francisco expo
sition.
In 1919 he was appointed investiga-
tor of the Bureau Of Efficiency, posi-
ton which he has held since. He has
been member of the Anacostia Clti-
zenS' Association for 40 yeas. He is
now lCS preSluenC ana TepreS tlLdtlV6 III
the Federation of Citizens Associations,
Of which body he is vice president. He
Is also chairman of the federatiop's
committee on highways, parks and
waterways.
On the creation Of Citizens Advisory
Council in 1925, DR.. Havenner was
elected o member with the highest vote
accorded any candidate in field of s.,
He was twice reelected. Although DR..
Havenner did not run for election to the
council this year, his position as presi-
dent of the federation makes him ex-
officio chairman Of the council.
DR.. Havenner is married, and has two
sons, Arthur Barnum and George
Clement He lives at 1745 Minnesota
avenue southeast. He is a Presbyterian
and Mason. He is president of the
Anacostia Building Association.
Dr. Havenner has made number of
Investigations for the Bureau of Ef,-
cheney in many widely separated fields.
He is the author of Foreign Trade
Promotion Work." Statistical Work of
the Federal Government" and of nu-
merous other reports, pamphlets, news
paper and magazine articles.