Jimi Hendrix was a parachutist in the military.
The United States Census of 1840 was the sixth census of the United States .. census of the United States. United States Census. United States. United States. Conducted by the Census Office on June 1 , 1840 , it determined the resident population of the United States to be 17,069,453 -- an increase of 32.7 percent over the 12,866,020 persons enumerated during the 1830 Census .. Census Office. United States Census Bureau. United States. United States. enumerated. Enumeration. 1830 Census. United States Census, 1830. The total population included 2,487,355 slaves .. In 1840 , the center of population was about 260 miles -LRB- 418 km -RRB- west of Washington , near Weston , Virginia .. Washington. Washington, D.C.