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Biographies of the Registers of Copyright

Thorvald Solberg, 1897—1930
William Lincoln Brown, 1934—1936
Clement Lincoln Bouvé, 1936—1943
Richard Crosby De Wolf, (acting) 1944—1945
Sam Bass Warner, 1945—1951
Arthur Fisher, Register 1951-1960
Abraham L. Kaminstein, 1960—1971
George D. Cary, Register 1971-1973
Abe A. Goldman, Acting Register 1973
Barbara Ringer, 1973-1980
David Ladd, Register 1980-1985
Donald Curran, Acting Register 1985
Ralph Oman, 1985—1993
Barbara Ringer, Acting Register 1993-1994
Marybeth Peters, 1994-2010
Maria Pallante, Register 2011-Present