Scammon, Richard M.

Richard Montgomery Scammon was born July 17, 1915, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a son of Richard Everingham, a university professor, and Julia (Simms) Scammon. He married Mary Start Allen on February 20, 1952. He received an A.B. in 1935 from the University of Minnesota; an L.S.E. in 1936 from the London School of Economics and Political Science; and an A.M. in 1938 from the University of Michigan. He served in England, France, and Germany with the U.S. Army, from 1941 to 1946, and became a captain. He served as deputy military governor of Kreis Mergentheim, Wuerttemberg in 1945, and political officer of Wuerttemberg-Baden, from 1945 to 1946. He also served with the U.S. Office of Military Government for Germany, Civil Administrative Division, in Berlin, Germany, as chief of elections and political parties branch, from 1946 to 1948; with the Department of State as chief of division of research for Western Europe, from 1948 to 1955. He was director of the Governmental Affairs Institute, Elections Research Center, from 1955 to 1961. He served as director, Bureau of the Census, from 1961 to 1965. He returned to the Elections Research Center as director in 1965. He also served as chairman of the U.S. delegation to observe elections in Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1958; chairman of the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation, from 1963 to 1964; as a member of the Organization of American States electoral mission to Dominican Republic in 1966; as chairman of the U.S. Select Commission on Western Hemisphere Immigration from 1966 to 1968; as a member of the President's Commission on Federal Statistics from 1970 to 1971; and as a member of the U.S. delegation to United Nations General Assembly in 1973. He died of Alzheimer's disease, April 27, 2001, in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

From the description of Scammon, Richard M. (Richard Montgomery), 1915-2001 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10582664