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Presbyterian Barbara Everitt Bryant, the first woman to lead the U.S. Bureau of the Census, dies at age 96

Posted March 15th, 2023

Barbara Everitt Bryant, a Presbyterian and the first woman to lead the U.S. Bureau of the Census, died March 2 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at the age of 96. Among her three children is Linda Bryant Valentine, the former executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency.