ABSTRACT
LAMONT, CORLISS Corliss Lamont (1902-95) was born in Englewood, New Jersey, to Florence C. and Thomas W. Lamont. He was educated at Harvard College, later at New College, Oxford, and finally earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University under the guidance of Frederick J.E. Woodbridge. He wrote a doctoral thesis on the subject of human immortality, and remained preoccupied with that subject until the end of his life. A crusading spirit, Lamont was deeply concerned with the safeguarding of civil liberties. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1932, and remained a member of the Board for twenty-three years.
