Washington: Government Printing Office: 1915
Organization of Department, 1915
Secretary of Commerce
Hon. William Cox Redfield, of New York
Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Hon. Edwin F. Sweet, of Michigan
Office of the Solicitor
Solicitor - Albert Lee Thurman, of Ohio
Assistant Solicitor - Edward T. Quigley
Office of the Secretary
Chief Clerk and Superintendent - Geo. C. Havenner
Disbursing Clerk - George Johannes
Private Secretary to the Secretary - U. Grant Smith
Private Secretary to the Assistant Secretary - Robert H. Clancy
Confidential Clerk to the Secretary - Agathe Olsen
Chief Division of Appointments - George W. Leadley
Chief Division of Publications - Dan C. Vaughan
Chief Division of Supplies - Francis M. Shore
Bureau of the Census
Director - William J. Harris
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Chief - Edward Ewing Pratt
Assistant Chief (first) - Edward A. Brand
Assistant Chief (second) - Frank R. Rutter
Bureau of Standards
Director - S. W. Stratton
Bureau of Fisheries
Commissioner - Hugh M. Smith
Deputy Commissioner - E. Lester Jones
Bureau of Lighthouses
Commissioner - George R. Putnam
Deputy Commissioner - John S. Conway
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Superintendent - Otto H. Twittmann
Assistant Superintendent - Frank Walley Perkins
Bureau of Navigation
Commissioner - Eugene Tyler Chamberlain
Deputy Commissioner - Arthur J. Tyrer
Steamboat-Inspection Service
Supervising Inspector General - George Uhler
Contents.
Origin and organization of the Department
- Origin
- Organization
- Duties assigned to Office of the Secretary
- - Secretary of Commerce
- - Assistant Secretary
- - Solicitor
- - Chief Clerk and Superintendent
- - Disbursing Clerk
- - Appointment Division
- - Division of Publications
- - Division of Supplies
Bureau of the Census
- Historical
- - Decennial censuses, 1790-1900
- - Establishment of permanent bureau
- Work of the Bureau
- - Decennial census of population
- - Decennial census of agriculture
- - Decennial census of mines and quarries
- - Quinquennial census of manufactures
- - Biennial preparation of Official Register of the United States
- - Annual inquiries
- - Geographer's Division
- - Mechanical appliances
- Organization
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
- Field work
- Office work
Bureau of Fisheries
- Division of Administration
- Division of Fish Culture
- Division of Inquiry Respecting Food Fishes
- Division of Statistics and Methods of the Fisheries
- Alaska Fisheries Service
- Publications
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
- History
- - Bureau of Manufactures
- - Bureau of Statistics
- - Bureaus of Foreign Commerce in the State Department
- - Work of the Bureau
- - - Consular reports
- - - Commercial attachés
- - - Commercial agents
- - - Foreign tariffs
- - - Commercial statistics
- - - Specific opportunities to extend trade
- - - Trade directories
- - - Branch offices
- - - Domestic trade development
- - - Cost of production investigations
Bureau of Lighthouses
Bureau of Navigation
Bureau of Standards
Steamboat-Inspection Service
