The President today announced that he will nominate Vincent P. Barabba, of Pittsford, N.Y., to be Director of the Bureau of the Census. He would replace Manuel Plotkin, who has resigned.
Barabba is currently manager of Xerox Corp.'s office of market research and is a former Director of the Bureau of the Census.
He was born September 6, 1934, in Chicago. He received a B.S. from California State University in 1969 and an MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1965.
From 1966 to 1969, Barabba was with Datamatics, Inc., in Los Angeles, and from 1969 to 1973, he was with Decision Making Information in Santa Ana, Calif. He was Director of the Bureau of the Census from 1973 until 1976, when. he joined Xerox.
Jimmy Carter, Director of the Census Nomination of Vincent P. Barabba. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/249754