Marriage and Children
On June 5, 1940, he married Katharine Graham, the daughter of Eugene Meyer, a multi-millionaire and the owner of The Washington Post, a struggling newspaper at the time. The couple settled down in a two-story row house.
During World War II, Graham enlisted in the Army Air Corps as a private (1942) and rose to the rank of major. His wife followed him on military assignments to Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania up until 1945, when he went to the Pacific theatre as an intelligence officer of the Far East Air Force.
Their first baby died at birth. Four children followed: Elizabeth ('Lally') Morris Graham, now Weymouth (born July 3, 1943), Donald Edward Graham (April 22, 1945), William Welsh Graham (born 1948), and Stephen Meyer Graham (born 1952).
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