Philip J. Lampi
Philip J. Lampi also Phil Lampi (born October 5, 1944 in Fitchburg , Massachusetts ) is an American historian and scientist .
Life
Lampi was raised in children's homes because his divorced mother could not look after him. In the Stetson Home for Boys , he first became aware of past elections and their results through the World Almanac of 1959. During his time in high school , he began preparing and completing known election data with the help of other sources and newspaper reports. He quit his day job and went to the library of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) in Worcester, founded in 1812, to keep track of the dates of previous elections. In his decades of research, Lampi, who had never studied , was encouraged and supported by scientists in Worcester and also by other institutions such as the state's National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, DC . Lampi now works as a researcher in the AAS library.
Lampi's data, which he kept in note boxes, are now 60 percent digitized and are available to the public. They contain data from a total of eighteen thousand elections between 1787 and 1825. This publication is a joint effort by the amateur scientist, the American Antiquarian Society and Tufts University in Medford and Somerville .
Publications
- Handwritten manuscript: New Jersey Votes, 1791–1816 .
- Democratic Newspapers in Massachusetts , Worcester, Massachusetts, USA 1998.
- A New Nation Votes . Tufts University file: [1]
Web links
- Literature by and about Philip J. Lampi in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Biography in Humanities des National Endowment for the Humanities (en.)
- Book review Jill Lepore (en.)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lampi, Philip J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lampi, Philip Joseph (full name); Lampi, Phil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian and scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fitchburg , Massachusetts |