hudreds of famous census records

Enjoy our detective work that reveals the most famous census records.

President George Bush on the 1940 Census

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Famous Census

The George W. Bush Presidental Library was dedicated yesterday. Looking back for the Bush family in the census records, his father, the first Bush US President is on the 1940 in Greenwich, CT.

1940 US Census

George Herbert Walker Bush, politician U. S. President (1989-1993)

Grove Ln., Greenwich, CT.
Prescott S. Bush, head, 44, OH, banker.
Dorothy W. Bush, wife, 38, ME.
Prescott Bush Jr., son, 17, ME.
GEORGE BUSH, son, 15, MA.
Nancy Bush, daughter, 14, NY.
John Bush, son, 8 CT.
William Bush, son, 1, CT
Two servants recorded in the Bush household.

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Gloria Swanson

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Famous Census

I just couldn’t post this star’s census record without her famous quote. What a whopper! Was it great writing or Swanson’s delivery that embedded this line in pop culture?

“I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.”
- Gloria Swanson – “Sunset Blvd.” (1950)

1930 US Census

Gloria Swanson, actress
Film career began in 1915 and included Sunset Blvd. (1950)

904 N. Crescent Dr., Beverly Hills, CA. Owned home. Value $200,000. Radio: yes.
Marquis de la Falaise, head, 32 (27), FR, FR, IE-South, executive, motion pictures, employed, vet: WW.
GLORIA DE LA FALAISE, wife, 30 (17), IL, IL, IL, actress, motion pictures, employed.
Gloria Samborn, daughter, 9, CA, NY, IL.
Joseph Samborn, son, 7, CA, US, US.
Six servants recorded in the de la Falaise household.

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Clark Gable and Carole Lombard

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Famous Census

It seems that children of the stars are always so low-profile… until they are arrested. Earlier this month we got a reminder that Clark Gable had a son when John Clark Gable was arrested in CA. (Read more on CNN)

The younger Gable was born in 1960, twenty years after his father and then wife Carole Lomard were counted on the 1940 Census.

1940 US Census
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, actors

4411 Anseline, Los Angeles, CA. Home owned, value $40,000.
CLARK GABLE, head, 39, born Ohio, 4 yrs high school, actor, motion pictures, earnings earnings $5000-plus per year.
CAROLE GABLE, wife, 30, born Indiana, 4 yrs high school, actress, motion pictures, earnings $5000-plus per year.

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Judy Garland on the 1940 Census

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Famous Census

Judy Garland, singer and actress – Judy Garland was an actress at MGM at the time of the 1940 Census and had starred in the Wizard of Oz the year before.

1940 US Census

1231 Stone Camp, Los Angeles, CA. Home owned, value $50,000.
Ethel Garland, head, 44, born Michigan, 4 yrs high school, no earnings.
Sue Garland, daughter, 24, born MN, 4 yrs high school, actress,  motion pictures, earnings $200 per year.
JUDY GARLAND, daughter, 17, born MN, 3 yrs high school, actress, motion pictures, earnings $5000-plus per year.

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