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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mike Schneider

Barbara Bryant, first woman to lead Census Bureau, has died

Census Bureau

Barbara Everitt Bryant, the first woman to run the U.S. Census Bureau and its leader during the contentious debate over how to compensate for undercounts of minority groups in the 1990 census, has died. She was 96.

Bryant's family said in an email that she died of natural causes Thursday evening, surrounded by family members, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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