James P. Delgado

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Full Name	James P. Delgado
Occupation	Archaeologist
Date Of Birth	Jan 11, 1958(1958-01-11)
Age	66
Country	United States
Horoscope	Capricorn

James P. Delgado Biography

James P. Delgado is one of the most popular and richest Archaeologist who was born on January 11, 1958 in United States. He also learned to scuba dive during his NPS tenure, and worked closely with the Park Service’s Submerged Cultural Resources Unit after the NPS sent him to the Presidio of San Francisco to attend an Army dive class. He was involved in wreck surveys both inside and outside NPS jurisdiction, including the first NPS surveys off Point Reyes National Seashore, Channel Islands National Park, and Cape Cod National Seashore, Pearl Harbor, where he studied the USS Arizona and USS Utah, and at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, where he worked with the team on the atomic-bombed ships of Operation Crossroads, the world’s first nuclear tests (1946). He was principal author of the final National Park Service study on the Bikini Atoll wrecks. Those shipwrecks include the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, Japanese battleship Nagato, the battleship USS Arkansas, the destroyer USS Lamson, the attack transport USS Gilliam, the attack transport USS Carlisle, and the submarines USS Pilotfish and USS Apogon.

His destiny might have been as a land-focused historian and archaeologist if he were not transfixed by the sight of the gold rush-era ship Niantic’s unearthed timbers in San Francisco’s Financial District when he was 20. Delgado worked with archaeologist Dr. Allen Pastron[1] on several excavations beginning in 1979. Among the buried ships from 1849 to 1851 that he would help excavate or analyze are the storeships Niantic and General Harrison, the ships William Gray and Candace, and many more.

After a one-year sabbatical from the NPS in 1984-1985 to attend East Carolina University, Delgado gained a master’s degree in Maritime History and Underwater Research and was subsequently assigned by NPS Chief Historian Edwin C. Bearss to work as project historian on the USS Monitor project with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA). That work led to a series of historical and archaeological context studies, and Delgado personally completed the successful nomination for Monitor’s designation as one of the first National Historic Landmark shipwrecks in the United States. He subsequently completed the National Historic Landmark studies for the wrecks of USS Arizona and USS Utah at Pearl Harbor. As of 2018, there are only nine National Historic Landmark shipwrecks or hulks that have been designated by the Secretary of the Interior.

In addition to his work in the water, a key aspect of Delgado’s early work was documenting the remains and environmental conditions surrounding shipwrecks exposed as a result of beach erosion. He was one of the first archaeologists in the United States to conduct such studies, beginning with the wrecks of the schooner Neptune, and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the steamer Pomo at Point Reyes National Seashore, and in 1985, he led a detailed survey of beached shipwreck remains at Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout National Seashores in North Carolina. His Master’s Thesis was based on his work with the beached wreck of the Gold Rush steamer Tennessee, which lies within the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Tennessee Cove.

Delgado’s early experience in historic preservation, especially the National Register nomination, opened his eyes to the larger world of historic preservation beyond archaeology, while also solidly affirming what would become a lifelong quest to protect the past from looting and destruction. Encouraged by his father, Delgado also focused on public speaking, debate club, student government, and competed in public speaking contests. He won the local Optimist’s Club’s speaking competition in 1973 for a speech on the club’s theme for that year, “Listen World.” The following year, he won the historical narration contest of the local chapter of the Native Sons of the Golden West.

James P. Delgado Net Worth

James P. Delgado is one of the richest Archaeologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, James P. Delgado 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

James Preston Delgado, Ph.D. (born January 11, 1958) is a maritime archaeologist, historian, maritime preservation expert, author, television host, and explorer.

1972-1976: Part-time museum curator at the New Almaden Museum (San Jose, California) and archaeological field surveyor 1976-1978: Part-time historic home curator at the Roberto-Sunol Adobe and the Winchester Mystery House (San Jose, California) and office assistant in the History Department at San Jose State University 1978-1991: Assistant Regional Historian, Park Historian for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and Maritime Historian of the National Park Service (San Francisco and Washington, D.C.) 1991-2006: Executive Director, Vancouver Maritime Museum and Host, The Sea Hunters 2006-2010: Executive Director and President, Institute of Nautical Archaeology 2010-2017: Director of Maritime Heritage, NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries 2017-Present: Senior Vice President, SEARCH, Inc.

Delgado first served for a year as the assistant to NPS Western Regional Historian Gordon S. Chappell, where he completed a series of National Register of Historic Places nominations for sites as diverse as U.S. Highway 1 on the Northern California coast, and the historic ships at San Francisco’s Hyde Street Pier. Delgado remained with the NPS as the first Park Historian for Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) serving from 1979 to 1986. The park covered 35,000 acres containing more than 2,000 historic buildings and sites such as Alcatraz, and a number of military forts and gun batteries, including a forgotten Civil War fortification at Fort Mason, the Black Point Battery. He co-directed the archaeological excavation of the battery with Martin T. Mayer. He also led the park’s early efforts to survey, characterize, and restore elements of the Adolph Sutro Historic District, which included Sutro heights, the grounds of the estate of Adolph Joseph Heinrich Sutro, developer of much of San Francisco’s “Outside Lands,” and onetime Mayor, as well as Sutro’s Cliff House, San Francisco and the ruins of the Sutro Baths. All of this was part of the relatively new park’s initial assessment of cultural resources within its boundaries, and determining what was significant. As the first historian for the park, he, along with the park’s first archaeologist, Martin T. Mayer, and its first historic architect, J. Patrick Christopher, completed the initial inventory and the first cultural resources management plan for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

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As a guiding principle of the National Maritime Initiative, Delgado, based on his experience at Golden Gate National Recreation Area, insisted on a physical inspection of the nation’s large historic vessels as part of the creation of a comprehensive national inventory of those vessels. That meant extensive travel throughout the United States, visiting ships, sailing, steaming and motoring on them, inspecting them during shipyard haul outs and repairs, climbing masts, crawling through engine rooms, and not just conducting a desk-top survey from afar. The first inventory of the large historic ships in the United States, led by Delgado, was completed and published in 1990 in conjunction with J. Candace Clifford. It remains the basis for the National Park Service’s ongoing, now digital inventory.

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Delgado is married to Ann Goodhart, a retired library director, whom he met while giving a lecture at her library in 1992. He has two children from a previous marriage, John and Elizabeth, and one grandchild.