Derolli

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D. Derolli was a Boston, Massachusetts-based astrologer active in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Press Predictions

• In November 1900, Derolli predicted McKinley would be re-elected, but would die in office, to be replaced by Roosevelt; McKinley was assassinated ten months later by Leon Czolgosz, and Roosevelt succeeded him.
  • "FATE FOLLOWS McKINLEY. Astrologer Derolli Finds President Will Be Reelected, but Will Die In Office, and Be Succeeded by Roosevelt", Boston Globe, 4 Nov. 1900, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/430745292/ 
• In November 1912, Derolli claimed the forthcoming presidential election would be decided by Congress; Woodrow Wilson won the Electoral College (435/531), carrying 40 of the 48 states, 41.8% of popular vote.
  • "STARS SHOW NO RESULT. Boston Astrologer Says Congress Will Choose Next President.", The Citizen (Honesdale, PA): 3, 8 Nov. 1912, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87078082/1912-11-08/ed-1/seq-3/ 
    

    Dr. D. Derolli, an astrologer of Cambridge, Mass., has issued a forecast on the coming presidential election. After reading astrologically the lives of the presidential and vice presidential candidates he concludes:

    "This problem has given the greatest anxiety, for I know how intense the feeling is in every section of the country. The result of my study is that there will be no choice by the people. No one can carry enough states to be elected beyond a doubt. The election of the president will then be made a prescribed law through congress."

    Dr. Derolli in an article published in the Boston Globe of Nov. 4, 1900, forecast the election of President McKinley, prophesied his untimely death and said that Colonel Roosevelt, then a vice presidential candidate, would succeed to the chief executive's chair.

Selected Publications

• https://repository.duke.edu/dc/eaa?f%5Bcompany_facet_sim%5D%5B%5D=Dr.+Derolli%2C+Scientific+Astrologer