Richard Douglas Lamm (August 3, 1935 – July 29, 2021) was an American politician, writer, and attorney. He served three terms as
38th Governor of Colorado
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as a
Democrat
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(1975–1987) and ran for the
Reform Party's nomination for
President of the United States
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in
1996
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.
Lamm was a
Certified Public Accountant
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and was the Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the
University of Denver
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.
Early life and education
Richard Douglas Lamm was born on August 3, 1935 in
Madison, Wisconsin
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, the son of Mary Louise (Townsend) and Edward Arnold Lamm, a coal company executive. He graduated from Mt Lebanon Sr. High School near
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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, and attended the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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, where he majored in
accounting
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. Lamm spent his college summers working as a
lumberjack
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in
Oregon
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, a stockboy in
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, and helping out on an ore boat. Lamm graduated from college in 1957, then served one year of active duty as a first lieutenant in the
United States Army
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at
Fort Carson
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in
Colorado
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and
Fort Eustis
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in
Virginia
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until switching to reserve duty in 1958.
From 1958-1960 Lamm lived in
Salt Lake City
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,
San Francisco
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, and
Berkeley
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, holding jobs as an
accountant
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, tax clerk, and a law clerk.
Lamm attended law school at the
University of California
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, graduated in 1961, then moved to
Denver
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in 1962, where he worked as an accountant and then set up a law practice. Lamm took to the
Colorado
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lifestyle, becoming an avid skier, mountain climber, hiker, and member of the
Colorado Mountain Club
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. He joined the faculty of the
University of Denver
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in 1969 and has been associated with the University ever since.
In 1963 he married
Dottie Vennard, a former airline flight attendant. In 1998 she won the Democratic nomination for the
United States Senate
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from Colorado, but lost in the general election to incumbent Republican
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
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.
Lamm was selected as one of
Time Magazine
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's "200 Young Leaders of America" in 1974, and won the
Christian Science Monitor
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"Peace 2020" essay in 1985. In 1992, he was honored by the
Denver Post
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and Historic Denver, Inc. as one of the "Colorado 100" - people who made significant contributions to Colorado and made lasting impressions on the state's history. Lamm was the recipient of the 1993 Humanist of the Year award from the
American Humanist Association
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. He was Chairman of the Pew Health Professions Commission and a public member of the
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
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.
[Richard D. Lamm, ''Governor's Chessboard: A Lifetime of Public Policy'' (2019)]
Political activities
Colorado House of Representatives
In 1964 he was elected to the
Colorado House of Representatives
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as a
Democrat
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from Denver. In 1967, he drafted and succeeded in passing the nation's first liberalized
abortion
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law. He was an early leader of the
environmental movement
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, and was President of the First National Conference on Population and the Environment.
In 1972, as a member of the
Colorado General Assembly
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, Lamm led
the movement against Denver's hosting of the
1976 Winter Olympics
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. Group was named Citizens for Colorado's Future (CCF).
Denver
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had already been awarded the games, but the movement succeeded in cutting off public funding for the games, forcing the city to cancel its hosting.
Innsbruck
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, Austria then replaced Denver as the host. Lamm's successful effort made him known statewide.
Colorado governor
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Lamm ran for
Governor of Colorado
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in 1974 on a platform to limit growth, and was elected. Reacting to the high cost of campaigning, he had walked the state in his campaign.
One of his acts as governor was designating musician
John Denver
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as the
Poet Laureate
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of Colorado.
As candidate and then governor, Lamm promised for environmental reasons to "drive a silver stake" through plans to build Interstate 470, a proposed circumferential highway around the southwest part of the
Denver Metropolitan Area
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. However, continued development in the area led to increased congestion on surface streets, and the highway was later built, largely with state funds, as
State Highway 470.
In 1984, his outspoken statements in support of
physician-assisted suicide
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generated controversy, specifically over his use of the phrase "we have a duty to die." Lamm later explained that he "was essentially raising a general statement about the human condition, not beating up on the elderly," and that the exact phrasing in the speech was "We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and
artificial heart
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s and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life." His dire predictions for the future of
social security
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and health care ("duty to die") earned him the nickname "Governor Gloom". His views were satirized by noted
folk singer
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Tom Paxton
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Lamm was elected Colorado governor three times. When he left office in 1987 after three terms and twelve years in the office, he was the longest-serving governor in state history (his successor,
Roy Romer
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, matched this record).
Later political campaigns
In 1990, Colorado Democratic state party leaders tried to get Lamm to run for the
U.S. Senate
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seat being vacated by Sen.
William L. Armstrong
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Early li ...
, a Republican, but Lamm declined. In 1992 he ran for the U.S. Senate but suffered his first political defeat.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
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beat him in the Democratic primary and went on to win the seat. (Nighthorse Campbell later switched to the
Republican Party.
In 1996 Lamm, while noting that he was still a registered Democrat, criticized both his own
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and the Republican Party, saying "I think both political parties are controlled by special interest money, and I've had enough of it." and "The Democrats are too close to the trial lawyers and the
National Education Association
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. The Republicans are too close to the radical right." On July 9, 1996, he formally announced his intention to run for the nomination of the
Reform Party for the U.S. presidency. Less than 48 hours after Lamm announced his candidacy,
Ross Perot
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, who built the Reform Party from his
United We Stand America
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organization, said he would run as the Reform Party nominee if drafted. In early August, Lamm picked former California Republican congressman
Ed Zschau, a high-tech millionaire and proven fund-raiser, to be his running mate on his would-be presidential ticket. Ultimately, however, Perot won 65.2 percent of the 49,266 votes cast by party members nationwide, Lamm winning just 34.8 percent.
Writer and novelist
In 1985, while still in the governor's office, Lamm tried his hand as a novelist. The resulting novel, ''1988'', is a story about a former Democratic governor of Texas running for
U.S. President
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on a
populist
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,
third-party
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* Third-party beneficiary, a person who could sue on a contract, despite not being an active party
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ticket, declaring himself a "progressive conservative." The main character bore a number of similarities to Lamm himself, in his stated political positions, his background as a Democratic governor, as well as presaging Lamm's own unsuccessful run for the Reform Party nomination in 1996. However, the main character in ''1988'' was also portrayed as a pawn of an international conspiracy to capture the
White House
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.
A voluminous writer, Lamm's other works include ''Population and the Law'' (1972), ''Some Reflections on the Balkanization of America'' (1978), ''Megatraumas: America at the Year 2000'' (1980), ''Energy Activities in the West'' (1980), ''The Angry West: A Vulnerable Land and Its Future'' (1982), ''Campaign for Quality: An Education Agenda for the 80's'' (1983), ''Pioneers and Politicians: Ten Colorado Governors in Profile'' (1984), ''Copernican Politics'' (1984), ''The American West: A poem'' (1985), ''Immigration Time Bomb: The Fragmenting of America'' (1985), ''The Lamm Administration: A Retrospective'' (1986), ''California Conspiracy'' (1988), ''Hard Choices'' (1989), ''Crisis: The Uncompetitive Society'' (1989), ''The fall and Rise of the American Economy'' (1989), ''Indicators of Decline: An article from The Futurist'' (1993), ''The Supply Factor in Health Care Cost Containment'' (1993), ''The Ethics of Excess: An article from The Hastings Center Report'' (1994), ''Health Care Workforce Reform.: An article from State Legislatures'' (1994), ''The West at Risk'' (1994), ''Futurizing America's Institutions.: An article from The Futurist'' (1996), ''The price of Modern Medicine'' (1997), ''Mountains of Colorado'' (1999), ''Government does, indeed, ration health care: An article from State Legislatures'' (1999), ''Redrawing the Ethics Map.: An article from The Hastings Center Report'' (1999), ''Vision for a Compassionate and Affordable Health System'' (2001), ''Brave New World of Health Care'' (2003), ''The Brave New World of Health Care'' (2004), ''The Challenge of an Aging Society: The Future of U.S. Health Care'' (2005), ''Two Wands, One Nation: An Essay on Race and Community in America'' (2006), ''Condition Critical: A New Moral Vision of Health Care'' (2007), and ''The Brave New World of Health Care Revisited'' (2013) with Andy Sharma, PhD.
Activities after political office
After leaving office, Lamm continued to speak publicly on
environmental
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issues, mainly
population control
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,
immigration reduction
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, and
health care
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issues.
In 2004 Lamm unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the board of directors of the
Sierra Club
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. He urged that the Sierra Club advocate immigration controls as a way to limit environmental degradation due to population growth.
Lamm served as the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the
Federation for American Immigration Reform
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(FAIR), and on the board of directors of the Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America (DASA). He was the Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the University of Denver.
He authored a book, ''The Brave New World of Health Care'', a criticism of current United States health care policies and proposals for reforming them. (Fulcrum Publishing, ) Lamm also served on the board of directors of American Water Development Inc, along with, among others,
Maurice Strong
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,
Samuel Belzberg, Alexander Crutchfield, and
William Ruckelshaus
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Ruckelshaus served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1966 to 1968, and was the United States Assistant Attorney Genera ...
.
In 2005, a 2004 speech by Lamm titled "I Have a Plan to Destroy America," became famous after being frequently forwarded as an email; in the talk he criticized
multiculturalism
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.
In 2006, he gave a controversial speech on the theme of his recently released book, ''Two Wands, One Nation'', arguing that black and Hispanic Americans should embrace "Japanese or Jewish values". The essay was widely criticized by Colorado community groups and leaders of his own party.
Death
Lamm died on July 29, 2021, in Denver from complications of a
pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a blockage of an pulmonary artery, artery in the lungs by a substance that has moved from elsewhere in the body through the bloodstream (embolism). Symptoms of a PE may include dyspnea, shortness of breath, chest pain p ...
, one week before his 86th birthday.
References
Further reading
* Doskoch, Peter. "Lamm on the line."''Psychology Today'' (Sep/Oct96), Vol. 29 Issue 5, pp 12–16.
* Lamm, Richard D.
Governor's Chessboard: A Lifetime of Public Policy' (2019), autobiography
* Riveland, Chase. "Gubernatorial Styles: Is There a Right One?." ''Journal of State Government'' 62.4 (1989): 136–139.
* "Beyond political paralysis: An interview with Richard Lamm." ''Christian Century'' (April 16, 1997) Vol. 114 Issue 13, pp 388–92.
External links
Richard Lamm on Multiculturalism Snopes article
Rocky Mountain News article
Ubben Lecture at DePauw University*
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