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.

In 1905, the company was bought out by American Steel Foundries and Lamont remained a vice president.

Lamont was Secretary of Commerce from 1929 until 1932, when he resigned in order to become president of the American Iron and Steel Institute, where he stayed until 1934.

[1][2][3] His grandson, Robert L. Belknap, was a professor of Russian literature at Columbia University.

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