Robert P. Lamont

Robert Patterson Lamont

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.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1867, educated at the University of Michigan (BSCE 1891). In 1916 Lamont constructed a retreat home in northern Wisconsin called Summerwind. Summerwind is known as one of the most haunted places in America, with Lamont himself firing a pistol at an apparition. Lamont died in Chicago, Illinois, in 1948.^[1]

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v · d · eCabinet of President Herbert Hoover (1929–1933) Vice President Charles Curtis (1929–1933) Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg (1929) • Henry L. Stimson (1929–1933) Secretary of War James William Good (1929) • Patrick J. Hurley (1929–1933) Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon (1929–1932) • Ogden L. Mills (1932–1933) Attorney General William D. Mitchell (1929–1933) Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown (1929–1933) Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams III (1929–1933) Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur (1929–1933) Secretary of the Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde (1929–1933) Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont (1929–1932) • Roy D. Chapin (1932–1933) Secretary of Labor James J. Davis (1929–1930) • William N. Doak (1930–1933)

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