Hubert Hamer
Hubert Hamer is the top official of the U.S. National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), the agency that produces most official U.S. government statistics on agriculture and food.
Hubert Hamer | |
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| Administrator of the National Agricultural Statistics Service | |
| Assumed office April 2016 | |
| President | Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Joseph T. Reilly |
| Personal details | |
| Alma mater | Tennessee State University (BA) |
Hamer has been at NASS since the 1990s and was made Administrator in 2016. He had worked in several field offices, then became an administrator of field offices, then became director of NASS's Statistics Division and chair of the USDA's Agricultural Statistics Board.[1][2] He is NASS's first African-American administrator.[3]
Early life and education
Hamer grew up on a farm in Benton County, Mississippi and later lived in Grand Junction, Tennessee. He received a bachelor's degree from Tennessee State University in agricultural science in 1980.[1][4]
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References
- Hubert Hamer: NASS Administrator at official NASS site
- "Hubert Hamer". C-SPAN.org. Retrieved 2017-12-27.
- Stacy M. Brown. USDA prods farmers to participate in agriculture census. Washington Informer. Dec 14–20, 2017.
- Steve Straehley. Administrator of the National Agricultural Statistics Service: Who Is Hubert Hamer? at allgov.com, 5 Jan 2017
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