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26-526: Thomas Lamont may refer to: Thomas W. Lamont (1870–1948), U.S. banker Thomas R. Lamont , U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) in the Obama administration [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

52-619: A Bachelor of Arts degree in 1892. He met his wife, Florence Haskell Corliss, at the 1890 Harvard commencement. He started working under the city editor for the New York Tribune two days after he graduated from Harvard in 1892. He married Florence on October 31, 1895 in Englewood, New Jersey. He also worked for the Albany Evening Journal , Boston Advertiser , Boston Herald , and New York Tribune , which paid only $ 25, while he

78-513: A Methodist minister, and Caroline Deuel Jayne. Since his father was a minister, they moved around Upstate New York a lot and they were not very wealthy. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1888, where he was editor of the school newspaper, The Exonian , as well as the school yearbook and literary magazine. He then attended Harvard College . At Harvard, he became first freshman editor of The Harvard Crimson , which helped him pay off some of his tuition. He graduated cum laude with

104-627: A bequest established the Lamont Poetry Prize . Lamont died in Boca Grande, Florida , in 1948. In 1895, Lamont married Florence Haskell Corliss. Born Englewood, NJ in 1873, Florence graduated from Smith College in 1893 and received an M.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University. Thomas and Florence had 4 children. Their son Corliss was a philosophy professor at Columbia University and an avowed socialist . Another son, Thomas Stilwell Lamont,

130-628: A debt repayment moratorium in the 1931 financial crisis. This also has important implications for later events such as his 1932 election campaign. Lamont was elected to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society in 1932. Lamont later undertook a semiofficial mission to Japan in 1920 to protect American financial issues in Asia. However, he did not aggressively challenge Japanese efforts to build

156-667: A fortune, notably by funding the building of Lamont Library . At the end of World War II , Lamont made a very substantial donation toward restoring Canterbury Cathedral in England . His widow, Florence Haskell Corliss donated Torrey Cliff, their weekend residence overlooking the Hudson River in Palisades, New York , to Columbia University . It is now the site of the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory . Upon Florence's death,

182-674: A mission to the Allies, led by Edward M. House , as requested by President Woodrow Wilson . Lamont not only advised the other countries but also went to them. Right before he was going to go to Europe, the Bolsheviks took power in Russia. He and the head of the American Red Cross, William B. Thompson , along with the approval of the British prime minister, Lloyd George, tried to convince America to aid

208-601: A missionary" for Italian fascism , secured a $ 100 million loan for Benito Mussolini . Despite his early support, Lamont believed the Second Italo-Abyssinian War begun in 1935 was outrageous. On September 20, 1940, the fascist police shocked Lamont by arresting Giovanni Fummi, J.P. Morgan & Co. 's leading representative in Italy. Lamont worked to secure Fummi's release. Fummi was released on October 1 and went to Switzerland . On Black Thursday in 1929, Lamont

234-564: A sphere of influence in Manchuria ; indeed, he supported Japan's non-militaristic politics until late into the 1930s. Ron Chernow won the National Book Award for his book The House of Morgan in which he claimed that Lamont had authored the infamous Japanese response to deceive the world about the Mukden incident , which was used as a pretext for Japan's invasion of Manchuria. That defied

260-585: The University of Berlin under supervision of Gustav Schmoller . Back in the United States, in 1902, Gay was appointed instructor at Harvard University , replacing William Ashley . In 1903, he was promoted to Assistant Professor, and in 1906 to Professor in the chair of Economic History at Harvard. Gay was the first Dean of the Harvard Business School from 1908 to 1919. The Harvard Business School

286-535: The Bolsheviks so that Russia would stay in the war. However, they were unsuccessful. Both he and Norman H. Davis were appointed as representatives of the Treasury Department to the Paris Peace Conference and had to determine what Germany had to pay in reparations. He participated in the committees that drew up the 1924 Dawes Plan and the 1929 Young Plan to reduce the amount paid by Germany. In

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312-500: The crash at prices premium to actual market value. Politicians, including Calvin Coolidge , and family members of prominent bankers, were on the list. Following the reorganization of J.P. Morgan & Co. in 1943, Lamont was elected chairman of the board of directors, after Morgan Jr. died, becoming the first non Morgan after George Peabody to chair the bank. Lamont became a generous benefactor of Harvard and Exeter once he had amassed

338-575: The expressed position of US government and the League of Nations that Japan, not China, was the aggressor. Lamont was the chairman of the International Committee of Bankers on Mexico for which he successfully negotiated the De la Huerta-Lamont Treaty . He continued to chair the committee into the 1940s by a series of renegotiations of Mexico's foreign debt. In 1926, Lamont, self-described as "something like

364-523: The following Thursday. In an attempt to stop the panic, Lamont organized Wall Street firms to inject confidence back into the stock market through massive purchases of blue chip stocks. The effort failed, and stocks ultimately lost a quarter of their value that week. After the crash unfolded, the Senate Banking Committee found that J.P. Morgan (headed by Lamont), had maintained a "preferential stock list", to allow for liquidation of stocks during

390-705: The interwar period, he was a spokesman for J.P. Morgan because J.P. Morgan Jr. was retiring. He handled the press and defended the firm during hearings like those of Arsene Pujo that investigated powerful Wall Street bankers. He was one of the most important agents for the Morgan investments abroad. A member of the Council of Foreign Relations , he was an unofficial advisor to the Wilson, Herbert Hoover , and Franklin Roosevelt administrations. Hoover contacted Lamont about his proposal for

416-506: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Lamont&oldid=579025762 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Thomas W. Lamont Lamont was born in Claverack, New York . His parents were Thomas Lamont,

442-660: The submarine service on the USS ; Snook  (SS-279) and died when the submarine sank in April 1945. One of his great-grandsons, Ned Lamont , was elected governor of Connecticut in 2018. Lamont is a major character in Nomi Prins ' novel Black Tuesday (2011) and in Kit Holland's Soul Slip Peak (2013). Edwin F. Gay Edwin Francis Gay (October 27, 1867 – February 8, 1946)

468-522: Was acting head of J.P. Morgan & Co. Five days prior to the Crash, President Herbert Hoover had contacted Lamont with concerns about the rampant market manipulation by Wall Street insiders, and the systemic risk it presented to the stock market. Lamont reassured the President that there was no cause for concern, and no need for government intervention, saying "The future appears brilliant!" The market crashed

494-728: Was an American economist , professor of economic history, and the first Dean of the Harvard Business School . Born in Detroit to a rich businessman, Gay attended schools in the United States and in Switzerland. In 1890, he obtained his A.B. in history and philosophy at the University of Michigan . He returned to Europe to study agriculture, industry, trade, and history at universities in Leipzig, Göttingen, Zurich, Berlin and London. In 1892, he married his Michigan classmate Louise Randolph, with whom he shared his research. In 1902, he received his PhD from

520-440: Was an advertising agency that worked for food corporations. The company was in a bad financial status, but Lamont fixed it, and the company changed its name to Lamont, Corliss, and Company. He was partners with his brother-in-law, Corliss. His banking caught the attention of banker Henry P. Davison, who asked Thomas to join the new Bankers Trust . He started as secretary and treasurer and then moved up to being Vice President and then

546-456: Was at Harvard. At the Tribune , he received many promotions, including night editor and helping the financial editor, which gave him his first taste of the financial world. He left journalism because of the low pay and went into business. He began working in business for Cushman Bros., which later became Lamont, Corliss, and Company, and turned it into a successful importing and marketing firm. It

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572-653: Was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1913. In 1921, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association . He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1932. From 1929 onwards, he was the representative for America and de facto co-chairman of the International Scientific Committee on Price History . He was president of the New York Evening Post from 1920 to 1923. Books,

598-510: Was founded in 1908 and started the first year with 59 students. In the 1920s, there were over 500 students. Gay served as chairman of the planning and statistics division of the War Industries Board during World War I. He was a founding member of the Council on Foreign Relations , and served as its first elected secretary and treasurer from 1921 to 1933, then as vice-president until 1944, succeeding co-founder Paul D. Cravath . Gay

624-467: Was headed by the paper's editor, Edwin F. Gay . On January 1, 1911, he became a partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. , following Davison to the company. The company had also started an improvised system so that the Allies could buy supplies from them. In 1917, he joined the Liberty Loan Committee, which helped the treasury sell war bonds to Americans. He also served unofficially as an advisor to

650-527: Was later vice-chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust and a fellow of the Harvard Corporation . One of his grandsons, Lansing Lamont , was a reporter with Time from 1961 to 1974. He published several books, including You Must Remember This: A Reporter’s Odyssey from Camelot to Glasnost about his experiences covering the important events of the time, including the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy . Another grandson, Thomas William Lamont II, served in

676-641: Was promoted to director. He rose to the vice presidency of the First National Bank. He was a member of the Jekyll Island Club on Jekyll Island, Georgia . In 1918, he purchased the New York Evening Post , of which his brother, Hammond, had been managing editor a decade earlier, from Oswald Garrison Villard . After failing to make a profit, he sold the paper in January, 1922 to a syndicate that

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