Clarence Arthur Tripp Jr. (1919–2003) was an American psychologist, writer, and researcher for Alfred Kinsey.[1]
Born on October 4, 1919, in Denton, Texas, and attended Corsicana High School in May 1938.[2] He studied at the New York Institute of Photography in New York City and in 1940, he became a member of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers.[3] He also studied photography at the Eastman School of Photography, Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute (now Rochester Institute of Technology).[1] He graduated from Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute in 1941 where he majored in commercial photography.[4] He served in the United States Navy.[1] In February 1943, he took a job at 20th Century Fox in New York City.[5] Tripp worked with Kinsey at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction in Bloomington, Indiana, from 1948 to 1956. He earned a PhD in Clinical psychology from New York University.[6] Tripp drew attention with a book, published posthumously, wherein he made the case that Abraham Lincoln had several same-sex relationships.[7]