Steve H. Murdock

Steve H. Murdock is an American sociologist and the former director of the United States Census Bureau. He has held named professorships in sociology at Texas A&M University, the University of Texas at San Antonio and Rice University. Murdock served as the first official demographer of Texas.

Steve H. Murdock
22nd Director of the United States Census Bureau
In office
January 4, 2008 – January 9, 2009
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byCharles Louis Kincannon
Succeeded byRobert M. Groves
Personal details
Alma materUniversity of Kentucky (Ph.D.) North Dakota State University (B.A.)

Biography

Murdock is a graduate of North Dakota State University and he received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Kentucky.[1] He was a Regents Professor and Head of the Department of Rural Sociology at Texas A&M University.[2] In 2001, Murdock became the first official demographer of the state of Texas.[3] He was later the Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair in Demography and Organization Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Director of the Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research.[2]

He was nominated to serve as director of the United States Census Bureau in the summer of 2007 by George W. Bush and he held the position from January 2008 until the change in presidential administrations in January 2009.[1] He was the Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professor of Sociology at Rice University until retiring in 2019.[4]

References
  1. "Directors 2002 - 2013". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  2. "Steve H. Murdock". Rice University. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  3. Ennis, Michael (March 2014). "Coming to our Census". Texas Monthly. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  4. "Former census director available to discuss Supreme Court decision". news.rice.edu. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
Political offices
Preceded by
Charles Louis Kincannon		 Director of the Census Bureau
2008–2009		 Succeeded by
Robert M. Groves
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