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Vernon D. Acree

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 27, 2021
Entity authorityQ56669780 ↗
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Vernon D. Acree (June 25, 1919 – February 1, 2013) was an American administrator who served as Commissioner of the United States Customs Service from 1972 to 1977. He served in the United States Army during World War II.

He died of pneumonia on February 1, 2013, in Fairfax, Virginia at age 93.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1919, 2013, 1972, 1977—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1919-06-25. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Vernon, Acree and Open-knowledge providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Vernon D. Acree” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.