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Lamont, Corliss
(b. 28 March 1902 in Englewood, New Jersey; d. 26 April 1995 in Ossining, New York), socialist author, teacher, humanist philosopher, and civil rights advocate.
Lamont was born into wealth.
His father, Thomas William Lamont, was chairman of J. P. Morgan and Company, and in 1915 his parents rented the New York City residence of Franklin D. Roosevelt while the latter served as assistant secretary of the navy. Florence Haskell Corliss, Lamont’s mother, donated the Lamont 125-acre estate in Palisades, New York, for the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.
Lamont graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1920 and received his B.A.
degree from Harvard University in 1924 with high honors.
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He attended Oxford University in England for one year and earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in 1932.
As a lifelong rebel, Lamont’s initial cause was an attack on university clubs at Harvard. Then, at the start of his career