Background
Grady, Paul Davis was born on September 5, 1891 in Seven Springs, North Carolina, United States. Son of James Calhoun and Ella Smith (Outlaw) Grady.
Grady, Paul Davis was born on September 5, 1891 in Seven Springs, North Carolina, United States. Son of James Calhoun and Ella Smith (Outlaw) Grady.
Student, Tennessee Military Institute, 1907-1908; student, Wake Forest College, 1910-1911; graduate, Washington and Lee University, 1910.
President North Carolina Warehouse Corporation, 1925-1932. Vice president North Carolina Cotoon Growers Corporation, 1944-1949. State consul Modern Woodmen American.
Chairman Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Columbus, Ohio. Board directors North Carolina Farmers Cooperative Exchange, Farm Bureau Insurance Company, Tectum Corporation, Newark, Ohio, Peoples Broadcasting Company, Worthington, Ohio, Peoples Development Company, Columbus, Alliance Manufacturing Company, Cooperative League of the United States, Chicago.
Chairman board education, Kenly, North Carolina. Member North Carolina Senate, 1923-1925, 33-35, president Senate, 1935. County attorney, 1935.
Candidate for government, 1940. Member Presidential Electoral College, 1944.
Married Lelia Grace Swink, June 10, 1909. Children: Eloise (Mistress Elbert S. Eskridge), Elsie, Paul Davis, James C., Fred.
