Background
HAVENNER, George Clement was born on September 23, 1866 in Prince Georges Company, Maryland, United States. Son of Walter Samuel and Elizabeth Ann (Thompson) Havenner.
investigator United States Bureau of Efficiency
HAVENNER, George Clement was born on September 23, 1866 in Prince Georges Company, Maryland, United States. Son of Walter Samuel and Elizabeth Ann (Thompson) Havenner.
Business College; Medical School, Doctor of Medicine.
With Government Printing Office, 1887-1901, bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department, 1901-1903. Chief Division of Publs., Department of Commerce and Labor, 1903-1913. Chief clerk and superintendent Department of Commerce, 1913-1918.
Investigator United States bureau of Efficiency, 1919-1933. Liaison officer Government Printing Office, 1933-1938. Retired September 1938.
Investigated Government Printing Office for President Roosevelt, 1909. Representative Department of Commerce at San Francisco Exposition, 1915. Investigated foreign trade promotion activities for federal government, 1920.
Investigated statistical activities of federal government, 1922. Elected member first Citizens’ Advisory Council to Commissioners of District of Columbia, 1925 (highest vote of any candidate), twice reelected. President Anacostia Building Association, 1925-1932.
Anacostia Citizens’ Association. President Federation of Citizens’ Assns., 1929-1932. Member board directors Washington Chamber Commerce.
Member Hoover-Curtis Inaugural Committee, 1929. Trustee Washington Community Chest. Member District Commissioners Employment Committee.
Member Board of Appeal for the District of Columbia. Executive vice president District of Columbia George Washington Bicentennial Commission. Vice president District of Columbia Chapter George Washington Memorial Parkway Association.
Member board of trustees Washington Public Library since 1930. Vice chairman Roosevelt-Garner Inaugural Parade Committee, 1933 and 1937. Honorary life member Anacostia, Congress Heights, Washington Highlands and Hillcrest Citizens’ associations, The Washingtonians and of Lodges 149 and 189 of the American Federation of Government Employees.
Mason. Wrote bulletins: Foreign Trade Promotion Work, 1920.
Married Mary Elizabeth Linger, August 13, 1889. Children: Albert Barnum, George Clement.