Mumford, L. Quincy

Mumford, L. (Lawrence) Quincy

(1903–82) librarian; born in Pitt County, N.C. The first professionally trained Librarian of Congress (1954–74), he oversaw completion of the Library's James Madison Memorial Building and greatly expanded its foreign procurement processes.
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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