Katherine Graham Howard was a graduate of Smith College with a bachelor"s degree in politics and government.
Background
She was the daughter of artist Margaret Nowell Graham and Joseph L. Graham, a director at Richard Joshua Reynolds. Katherine Graham was born in Guyton, Georgia and grew up there and in North Carolina. She was the daughter of American artist Margaret Nowell Graham and Joseph L. Graham, who was Chairman of the Board of the Richard Joshua Reynolds Tobacco Company in the early 1900s.
Education
Howard attended Salem Academy, majored in fine arts at Salem College in North Carolina, and obtained her bachelor’s degree in politics and government at Smith College in Massachusetts She was the elder sister of John Stephens Graham and a cousin of Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell.
Career
During the Eisenhower administration she served in the Federal Civil Defense Administration, United States. delegate to North Atlantic Treaty Organization committee on civil defense, and Deputy United States. Commissioner General to the Brussels World Fair. Her brother was John Stephens Graham. Politics
In 1938, Howard served as director of the Women"s Republican Club of Massachusetts and then was made president until 1945.
She was an Alternate Delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention in 1944, and from 1945 to 1953 she was a Massachusetts Republican National Committeewoman.
Foreign the 1948 Republican National Convention, Howard was a Massachusetts Delegate-at-Large. From 1948 until 1953, she was Secretary of the Republican National Committee and in 1952 was the Secretary of the Republican National Convention.
During this period of increasing political involvement, Howard developed lasting relationships with many leading Republicans, most notably Leverett Saltonstall and Sinclair Weeks from Massachusetts. Eisenhower administration
In 1953, Howard, a dedicated Republican, began her public service career in the Eisenhower administration working in the Federal Civil Defense Administration until 1957.
She was a United States delegate to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization committee on civil defense from 1953 to 1956.
From 1957 to 1958, she was Deputy United States. Commissioner General to the Brussels World Fair (1957-1958). Throughout the political campaigns and service in the Eisenhower Administration, she advocated a larger role for women in politics and government.