Biography
Ned Lamont is the incumbent Democratic Governor of Connecticut, seeking a third term with Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz. A businessman who founded the cable-services company Campus Televideo, he won the governorship in 2018 and was re-elected in 2022. His campaign emphasizes lowering costs, universal pre-K and child care, housing supply and energy-cost oversight of utilities.[1][2][3][4]
Lamont was born in Washington, D.C.[2][4] He earned a B.A. from Harvard College in 1976 and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management in 1980.[2][4]
Lamont founded Campus Televideo, a cable and satellite services company for college campuses, and also founded a weekly newspaper.[2][4][5] He served as a Greenwich selectman from 1987 to 1989, and later on the Greenwich Board of Estimate and Taxation, and chaired the State Investment Advisory Council.[2][4][5]
Lamont won the 2006 Democratic U.S. Senate primary against Joe Lieberman, but lost that year's Senate race to Lieberman, and he lost the 2010 Democratic gubernatorial primary.[2][6] He won the governorship in 2018 and 2022, taking office on January 9, 2019, and beginning a second term on January 4, 2023.[2][5]
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Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21.