Republican (proto-fascist/socialist) President Theodore Roosevelt—without a constitutional amendment—signs Public Law 57-159, creating the Census Bureau as a permanent agency within the Department of the Interior. Previous decennial censuses were conducted by the United states Marshal’s Office with temporary staffs.
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References:
Census Bureau Act, 32 Public Statutes at Large 51 (1902).
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 260.