Edward Miner Lamont Jr. is an American businessman and politician serving as the 89th governor of Connecticut. He has served in this position since January 9, 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a Greenwich selectman from 1987 to 1989.
Who are Edward Miner Lamont and Camille Helene?
Lamont was born on January 3, 1954, in Washington, D.C., to Camille Helene (née Buzby) and Edward Miner Lamont. His mother was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico to parents from the U.S. mainland, and later worked as a staffer for Senator Estes Kefauver.
His father, an economist, worked on the Marshall Plan and then served in the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Nixon administration.
He is the great-grandson of former J. P. Morgan & Co. chair Thomas W. Lamont and a grand-nephew of former American Civil Liberties Union director and National Council of American–Soviet Friendship chairman and founder Corliss Lamont.
He is a distant descendant of colonial diarist Thomas Minor, from whom he gets his middle name.