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(WDBJ) - On this day in 1790, The first United States Census began as required by the United States Constitution. Thomas Jefferson supervised the first Census. A little under 4 million people were ...

On Aug. 1, 1790 — 235 years ago Friday — the first Constitutionally-mandated U.S. Census was completed. While those of us who love data enjoy poring over the results of each decade’s census, the ...

At head of title: Department of Commerce and Labor. U.S. Bureau of the Census. S.N.D. North, director. Roster of heads of families in 1790, so far as can be shown from records of the Census office.

There were 3,929,214 people (including slaves, but not untaxed Indians) in the U.S. in 1790, when Thomas Jefferson ran off the first census. Seventeen censuses later, the U.S. population figures to ...