[2] Kincannon took the Director's office on March 13, 2002, after being nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate.

His two exceptions were stints in the 1970s, when he joined the staff of the Office of Management and Budget, and a tenure as the chief statistician of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, based in Paris during the 1990s.

[1] He argued that employees who were familiar with different languages and ethnicities would produce a more accurate census count.

[1] Kincannon expressed pride of serving as Director of the Census Bureau, noting that past directors included Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams and Martin Van Buren, who had overseen the census as United States Secretary of State.

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