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John Graham
Paul F. Foster (center) and John A. McCone, 1960
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
In office
November 19, 1952 – January 19, 1953
PresidentHarry S. Truman
Preceded byJohn Dunlap
Succeeded byJustin Winkle (Acting)
Personal details
Born
John Stephens Graham

(1905-08-04)August 4, 1905
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA)
Harvard University
University of Virginia (LLB
)

John Stephens Graham (August 4, 1905 – October 20, 1976) was a Washington, D.C., attorney and political appointee. He was an

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and commissioners for the Internal Revenue Service and Atomic Energy Commission
.

Early life and education

Graham was born August 4, 1905, in

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company executive, and Margaret Nowell Graham, an artist. His older sister was Katherine G. Howard, an Eisenhower administration official.[1][3] He was a cousin of Margaret Mitchell, the author of Gone With the Wind.[4]

Graham graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and attended Harvard Law School before graduating from University of Virginia School of Law[1][5] with close friend Frank Wisner.[6]

Career

During World War II, Graham served in the United States Navy.[7]

Graham served as

John Wesley Snyder.[8] He served as the 30th Commissioner of Internal Revenue[9] from November 19, 1952, until January 19, 1953.[10]

After Dwight D. Eisenhower became president in 1953, Graham became a financial and business consultant in Washington, D.C., until 1956, when he served as national treasurer for Volunteers for Stevenson, the campaign to elect Adlai Stevenson President of the United States, against incumbent President Eisenhower.

On September 12, 1957, when Graham was 51, he was appointed as a commissioner of the

Joint Committee[7] Graham served as a commissioner on the commission until June 30, 1962.[12][13][14]

Personal life

He married Elizabeth Foster Breckinridge (1911–2005),

Henry S. Breckinridge and Ruth Bradley Woodman Breckinridge.[nb 2] Elizabeth's father was the United States Assistant Secretary of War under Woodrow Wilson, and was a member of the prominent Breckinridge family. She was born in Monterey, Pennsylvania, grew up in Washington, D.C., and Bethesda, Maryland, and was a 1933 graduate of Vassar College.[8][nb 3] She was a tutor, teacher and founder of an after-school program, Tuesday School.[8]

Graham and his wife lived in

Winston-Salem, N.C. before moving to Washington, D.C., in 1942 where Graham served in the Navy. The couple had four daughters:[8]

Graham died on October 20, 1976, in Washington, D.C.

New London, NH
.

Notes

  1. ^ Derby states that Graham was born in Reading, Massachusetts,[1] as does the family census records.[2]
  2. Nazi submarine near Iceland. Mrs. Breckinridge was lost at sea. In memory of her mother, Elizabeth Graham donated a family Concord, New Hampshire, residence to the Red Cross. Until early 2005 it was the Red Cross' Concord headquarters.[8][16][17][subnote 1]
  3. ^ Elizabeth and her father were familiar with the Charles Lindbergh family. In 1927 Lindbergh gave her her first airplane ride. Colonel Henry S. Breckinridge was made counsel for Lindbergh following the kidnapping of his young son.[8]

Subnotes

  1. ^ The Washington Post article states that Ruth Breckinridge was lost at sea on June 26, 1941, but the official sources state the ship was hit on June 27th.[8][16][17]

References

  1. ^ a b c d George Derby; James Terry White. The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time. J. T. White. p. 365.
  2. ^ Year: 1920; Census Place: Winston-Salem Ward 2, Forsyth, North Carolina; Roll: T625_1298; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 87; Image: 170.
  3. ISBN 0-533-02950-3
  4. ISBN 978-0-06-097501-2
    .
  5. ^ Coast Guard Bulletin. U.S. Coast Guard. 1949. p. 168.
  6. ISBN 0-313-33282-7
    .
  7. ^
    ISBN 0520060180. Retrieved 26 March 2016.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
    )
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i Joe Holley. "Education Volunteer Elizabeth Graham, 94." The Washington Post. Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive. October 28, 2005. HighBeam Research. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  9. ISBN 978-0-16-085218-3
    .
  10. ^ "Internal Revenue Service Data Book 2003" (PDF). irs.gov. Retrieved September 13, 2007.
  11. ^ United States. President (1964). U.S. Participation in the International Atomic Energy Agency. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 37.
  12. ^ Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963. Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  13. ^ United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary (1962). Administrative procedure act amendments: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, first session, pursuant to S. Res. 51 on S. 1734, to amend sections 7 and 8 of the Administrative procedure act. May 18, June 9, August 1, 1961. United States Govt. Print. Off. pp. 86–87.
  14. ISBN 978-0-8476-8515-8
    .
  15. ^ Staff (October 29, 2005). "Elizabeth Graham, WASHINGTON, D.C. -". Concord Monitor. Retrieved 26 March 2016.[permanent dead link]
  16. ^ a b "Naval Events, June 1941, Part 2 of 2, Sunday 15th – Monday 30th". Naval History. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  17. ^ a b "Maasdam". Uboat. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  18. ^ Coreth. "In Memory of Joseph Herman CORETH". dignitymemorial.com. Joseph Gawler's Sons, LLC. Retrieved 26 March 2016.

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Preceded by
John B. Dunlap
 Commissioner of Internal Revenue
1952–1953 		Succeeded by
Justin F. Winkle
Acting
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