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businessmen to become active in civic life. Lampe served as Vice Chair of the
Virginia Metropolitan Area Transportation Study Commission, a member of the Arlington Commission on Aging and later delegate to the White House Conference on Aging, a member of Arlington's Committee of 100, and as Chair and President of the Northern Virginia Mental Health Association (his wife Ginny also served on that board and on the Northern Virginia Mental Retardation Council). He also served on the Board of Trustees of Arlington Hospital and with Dr. Kenneth Haggerty helped turn around its finances despite competition with
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399:'s athletic fields. He then became involved with the local civic association (the Northwest Arlington Civic Association), and matters involving construction of Route 66 through Arlington. Meanwhile, his wife (and her father C. Willard Harvey), kept taking him to Maryland Republican functions (her grandfather had been the first Republican elected to the
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Republicans. He became the first European born member of the Virginia legislature. Although the Republicans had increased to perhaps 24 members from their previous 6 to 8 legislative seats, they were still a minority party in Virginia's legislature. Two years later Arlington's
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administration was ending, Lampe resigned his government job because he would otherwise need to wait three or four years for a promotion. He accepted a position with a local stock-brokerage firm, Birely & Company, and began his private sector career. Although he initially worked across the
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neighborhood in 1953. Two years later, his mother was scheduled to become vice-consul in
Austria, but never left the U.S.A., instead dying of a stroke in Arlington, so Henry and his wife Ginny Lampe moved into her house. In 1955, Lampe took an job with the
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Democrats reorganized, and Lampe lost his re-election bid, coming in 5th among the seven candidates for the three part-time delegate positions. Lampe only ran for office once more, and lost his bid for election to the
Arlington County Board in 1973 to
271:, to American diplomat Dorothea Caroline Gatjeshipper and her husband Henry Dietrich Lampe, whose business career involved shipping cargo, young Hank was an American citizen by birth but only moved stateside to Arlington, Virginia, with his family as
507:, which makes them available through its library's special collections office. Arlington also nominated Virginia Lampe for an entry in the Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Margaret Marston Lampe donated her papers from before their marriage to
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became the first female chairman of the 10th
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