BIOGRAPHY

Ned Lamont was sworn in as Connecticut’s 89th governor on January 9, 2019, and began his second term on January 4, 2023. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1954, he entered public life soon after college by founding a weekly newspaper in a town that had lost its largest employer.

Before becoming governor he served on the Greenwich Board of Selectmen and Board of Estimate and Taxation, chaired the State Investment Advisory Council, and built a telecommunications company serving college campuses. He has also volunteered as a teacher at Harding High School in Bridgeport and taught as an adjunct professor at Central Connecticut State University. He and his wife, Annie, have three children.