Calvin Beale
American demographer

Calvin Beale

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American demographer
Gender:
Male
Places:
United States of America
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MathematicsScience
Birth:
6 June 1923(Washington, D.C.)
Death:
2 September 2008(Washington, D.C.)
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Calvin Lunsford Beale (6 June 1923 – 2 September 2008) was an American demographer who specialized in rural population trends. He first identified a reverse in population decline in some rural areas, and his work led to development of the Beale code for categorizing rural development.

Life and career

He was born in Northeast Washington, D.C. on June 6, 1923. He graduated from Eastern High School and the Wilson Teachers College.

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Calvin Beale's 1998 photograph of the Oneida County Courthouse in Rome, New York (1851). Beale took hundreds of courthouse photographs during his long career as a demographer.

After earning a master's degree in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, he worked for 50 years at the United States Department of Agriculture. In addition to his work as a demographer, Beale is noted for his many photographs of county courthouses from around the United States taken during his travels.

Beale died of colon cancer in Washington, D.C..