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ROLAND POST, an American statistician; born in Bridgeport, Conn., April 14, 1866; was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1885; studied economics at Berlin, Leipzig, and Halle-on-Saale, Germany; was instructor in accounting and statistics in the University of Pe Pennsylvania in 1888-1891, and Professor of Statistics in 1891-1900. He served also as statistician of the United States Senate Com- FALL Academy of Political and Social Science; tistical Association, and the American as secretary of the conference in 1892.
He was a member of the American Economic Association, the American Statistical Association, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science; author of numerous essays on crimi- Social Science (1890-1900). Commissionvision of documents in the Library of Congress, and editor of "Annals" of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (1890-1900). Commissioner of education, Porto Rico (1904-1907), Statistician U. S. Immigrant Commission (1908-1911), Assistant Director of Census (1911-1912). cated in the country schools. After read- States senator from New Mexico, born in Frankfort, Ky., in 1861. He was educated in the country schools. After reading law, he was admitted to the bar and began practice in 1889, continuing until 1904. He worked as a miner and became interested in mines, lumber, lands, and railroads, acquiring large interests in farming, stock raising, and mining. He served as a member of the New Mexico Legislature and as associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1912 and was again elected in 1913 for the term of 1913-1919. He was re-elected in 1919. In the Senate he gave special attention to the relations of the United States and Mexico, and in 1918-1920 he conducted a series of investigations relating to Mexico and the border States, Arizona and New Mexico. He became Secretary of the Interior on 4, 1921.
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