Katherine graham biography

American newspaper publisher (1917–2001)

For the golfer with the similar name, see Katherine Graham (golfer).

Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 – July 17, 2001) was an American newspaper publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991.

Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. She was one of the first 20th-century female publishers of a major American newspaper and the first woman elected to the board of the Associated Press.

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Graham's memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.

Early life

Katharine Meyer was born in 1917 into a wealthy family in New York City, to Agnes (née Ernst) and Eugene Meyer.^[1] During her childhood, she also lived in Alameda, California.^[2] Her father was a financier and later Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Her grandfather was Marc Eugene Meyer, and her Katharine Graham: Newspaper Publisher, Watergate Figure HIP