Clairette Papin Armstrong
American psychologist (1886–1973
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Early life and education
Armstrong was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Samuel Treat Armstrong and Alice Cobin Armstrong. Her father was an army surgeon and head of the Hillborn Farm Sanitarium in Katonah, New York. Her paternal grandfather David H. Armstrong was a United States senator from Missouri. Her younger brother Donald Armstrong was a brigadier general during World War II.
She played tennis in college and graduated from Barnard College in 1908. She earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1909, and a Ph.D. in psychology from New York University in 1931.
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Career
Armstrong went to Europe as a Red Cross nurse during World War I. From 1924 to 1926, she was chief psychologist at Bellevue Hospital. She worked with the Children's Court from 1926 to 1933, and with the Domestic Relations Court from 1933 to 1946. In 1934 she spoke at the Eugenic Research Association meeting in favor of eugenic immigration policies, specifically to prevent juvenile delinquency.
Death
Armstrong died in 1973, at her home in New York City, at the age of 86.