Robert P. Lamont

Robert P. Lamont


5th United States Secretary of Commerce
In office March 5, 1929 – August 7, 1932
President	Herbert Hoover
Preceded by	William F. Whiting
Succeeded by	Roy D. Chapin
Personal details
Born	Robert Patterson Lamont (1867-12-01)December 1, 1867 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Died	February 20, 1948(1948-02-20) (aged 80) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Resting place	Unknown
Spouse(s)	Helen Gertrude Trotter Lamont
Children	Robert Patterson Lamont, Jr. Gertrude Lamont Dorothy Lamont
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Profession	Politician

Robert Patterson Lamont (December 1, 1867 – February 20, 1948) was United States Secretary of Commerce March 5, 1929 to August 7, 1932 during the administration of Herbert Hoover. He was commerce secretary during difficult times for commerce, as a result of the Great Depression.

Life

West View Farms, Lamont's estate in Lake Forest, Illinois from 1925 to 1934, was designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw.

Lamont was born in Detroit, Michigan on December 1, 1867, to Isabella (née Patterson) and Robert Lamont. He was educated at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1891 with a degree in civil engineering. He worked as an engineer at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Lamont married Helen Gertrude Trotter on October 24, 1894. They had three children: (Robert Patterson II, Gertrude and Dorothy Lamont). In 1897, he was hired by the Simplex Railway Appliance Company as first vice president. In 1905, the company was bought out by American Steel Foundries and Lamont remained a vice president. In 1912, he was appointed company president, a position he held until his Hoover administration appointment in 1929. Lamont was Secretary of Commerce from 1929 until 1932, when he resigned in order to become president of the American Iron and Steel Institute, where he stayed until 1934. Lamont died in Chicago, Illinois, in 1948.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

↑ http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lambdin-lamy.html
↑ Press Reference Library (Western edition). Notables of the West (1915), Being the Portraits and Biographies of the Progressive Men of the West ..., Internat. News Service, pp. 442–
↑ Hoover, Herbert (3 August 1932). "Statement on the Resignation of Robert P. Lamont as Secretary of Commerce.". The American Presidency Project. U of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 15 October 2014.

Political offices
Preceded by William F. Whiting	U.S. Secretary of Commerce Served under: Herbert Hoover March 5, 1929 – August 7, 1932	Succeeded by Roy D. Chapin

United States Secretaries of Commerce

Secretaries of Commerce and Labor	Cortelyou Metcalf Straus Nagel

Secretaries of Commerce	Redfield Alexander Hoover Whiting Lamont Chapin Roper Hopkins Jones Wallace Harriman Sawyer Weeks Strauss Mueller Hodges Connor Trowbridge Smith Stans Peterson Dent Morton Richardson Kreps Klutznick Baldrige Verity Mosbacher Franklin Brown Kantor Daley Mineta Evans Gutierrez Locke Bryson Pritzker Ross (nominee)

Cabinet of President Herbert Hoover (1929–33)

Vice President	Charles Curtis (1929–33)

Secretary of State	Frank B. Kellogg (1929) Henry L. Stimson (1929–33)

Secretary of the Treasury	Andrew W. Mellon (1929–32) Ogden L. Mills (1932–33)

Secretary of War	James W. Good (1929) Patrick J. Hurley (1929–33)

Attorney General	William DeWitt Mitchell (1929–33)

Postmaster General	Walter F. Brown (1929–33)

Secretary of the Navy	Charles F. Adams, III (1929–33)

Secretary of the Interior	Ray Lyman Wilbur (1929–33)

Secretary of Agriculture	Arthur M. Hyde (1929–33)

Secretary of Commerce	Robert P. Lamont (1929–32) Roy D. Chapin (1932–33)

Secretary of Labor	James J. Davis (1929–30) William N. Doak (1930–33)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 61377095 LCCN: no2008190230 BNF: cb111164932 (data)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/9/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.