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According to the AP, the Senate confirmed a Texas demographer Wednesday to head the Census Bureau as it steps up preparations for the 2010 national count.  The Census Bureau's website provides photos of the Senate confirmation.

The Senate, on a voice vote, confirmed Steven Murdock, the state demographer of Texas, as the new census director. Lawmakers praised Murdock as an accomplished academic. They said they expect him to lead the government's primary collector of economic and demographic statistics without political interference from the White House.

Murdock is director of the Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He earned a doctorate in demography and sociology form the University of Kentucky.

Murdock's faculty profile from San Antonio, and his CV from Rice University's Sociology Department.