Ned Lamont Education, Young, Family, Net Worth, Wikipedia, Office

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

Ned Lamont Education, Young, Family, Net Worth, Wikipedia, Office

Lamont was born in Washington, D.C. to Camille Helene (née Buzby) and Edward Miner Lamont, and is the great-grandson of former J. P. Morgan & Co. chairman Thomas W. Lamont. Lamont’s father, an economist, worked on the Marshall Plan and later served in the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Nixon administration.

Lamont attended Phillips Exeter Academy, where he served as president of the student newspaper, The Exonian. After graduating from Phillips Exeter in 1972, Lamont earned a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1976 and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management in 1980.

Lamont’s earnings came mostly from interest and dividend income. The former cable television entrepreneur has not taken the state’s annual $150,000 salary for the job of governor since he was first elected in 2019