Robert P. Porter

Robert Percival Porter (1852–1917) was an English-born journalist and statistician who made his career in the United States. He wrote on economics and tariffs for American newspapers, served on the Tariff Commission of 1882 and was superintendent of the eleventh United States census in 1890. After the Spanish-American War he was sent as special commissioner to Cuba and Puerto Rico to report on their finances and industries, which led to Industrial Cuba (1899). He later returned to Britain, where he worked for The Times, writing on trade and on Japan and the Far East.