Date of Birth
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07-December-1880
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Place of Birth
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Greeley
(Weld County, Colorado, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Lawrence Henry Gipson
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Profession
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Writer, Historian, Author
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Lawrence Henry Gipson was an American historian, who won the 1950 Bancroft Prize and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for History. He is best known as a leader of the "Imperial school" of historians who studied the British Empire from the perspective of London officials, and generally praised the administrative efficiency and political fairness of the Empire.
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