Ned Lamont

Ned Lamont was born in Washington, D.C., and earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Harvard College in 1976.⁠[1]

After college he founded a weekly newspaper in a town that had lost its largest employer, covering town meetings and the Board of Selectmen to inform residents during the community’s economic recovery. He then attended the Yale School of Management, earning an M.B.A. in 1980.⁠[2][1]

After Yale, Lamont joined Cablevision’s startup operation in Fairfield County, Connecticut. In 1984 he founded Campus Televideo, which provided cable and satellite services to college campuses, as part of Lamont Digital Systems (originally Lamont Television Systems). He sold Campus Televideo in 2015.⁠[1]

In 1987 Lamont was elected to Greenwich’s three-member Board of Selectmen, resigning in 1989; he also served three terms on the town’s Board of Estimate and Taxation. In 1990 he ran unsuccessfully for the Connecticut State Senate.⁠[1][2]

In the early 1990s Governor Lowell Weicker appointed him to Connecticut’s State Investment Advisory Council; he served four years as its chairman, overseeing a multibillion-dollar state pension fund.⁠[1][2]

In 2006 Lamont defeated incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman 51% to 48% in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate; in the general election Lieberman, running as an independent, defeated Lamont 50% to 40%.⁠[1]

In 2010 Lamont lost the Democratic gubernatorial primary to Dan Malloy, 43% to 57%.⁠[1]

On August 14, 2018, Lamont won the Democratic gubernatorial primary with 81.2% of the vote; on November 6 he defeated Republican Bob Stefanowski 49.4% to 46.2% to be elected governor of Connecticut. On January 9, 2019, he was sworn in as the state’s 89th governor.⁠[1][2]

Lamont has said that when he took office in 2019 Connecticut was “in a world of hurt, lurching from deficit to deficit.” His office lists among his initiatives what it calls the “Largest tax cut in CT history,” investments in housing affordability, funding for childcare and for public and higher education, and the Governor’s Workforce Council.⁠[3][2]

On November 8, 2022, Lamont was reelected, again defeating Stefanowski, 56.0% to 43.0%, and he began his second term on January 4, 2023. As of May 2021 he was also an adjunct professor at Central Connecticut State University.⁠[1][2]

On November 14, 2025, Lamont, then 71, released a campaign video announcing that he would seek a third term as governor, and Lieutenant Governor Susan Bysiewicz, also seeking a third term, campaigned with him around the state that day. He said more work was needed on health care access, housing availability, and energy affordability, adding, “We've come a long way but the job's not done.” He faced a Democratic primary challenge from state Representative Josh Elliott of Hamden.⁠[3]

On August 11, 2026, Lamont defeated Elliott 67.4% to 32.6% in the Democratic primary. In the general election he faced Republican state Senator Ryan FazioRyan FazioRyan Fazio is an American Republican politician who has represented the 36th District in the Connecticut State Senate since 2021. In 2026 he was the Republican nominee for governor of Connecticut and lost the November 3 general election.Open the full entry. Lamont campaigned on affordability, pointing to a middle-class tax cut and balanced budgets with surpluses.⁠[1][4]

At about 9:20 p.m. on November 3, 2026, just over an hour after polls closed at 8 p.m., the Associated Press called the race for Lamont over Fazio, giving him a third term. Unofficial returns showed Lamont with 58.8% of the vote and Fazio with 41.2%. Fazio called Lamont to concede. If he completes the term, Lamont will be Connecticut’s longest-serving governor in modern history.⁠[5][4][1]

After his victory Lamont said, “I need people to believe in this state as much as I do,” and named early childhood education and lowering health care costs as his top priorities.⁠[5]

Lamont and First Lady Annie LamontAnnie LamontAnnie Lamont is an American venture capitalist and the co-founder and managing partner of Oak HC/FT, a healthcare and financial technology investment firm. She previously led healthcare and fintech investing at Oak Investment Partners for many years and has invested in companies including athenahealth, One Medical, VillageMD, and CareBridge.Open the full entry have three children.⁠[2]

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