Background
He was born August 4, 1905 in Reading, Massachusetts, son of Richard Joshua Reynolds Tobacco Company executive Joseph L. Graham and artist Margaret Nowell Graham.
He was born August 4, 1905 in Reading, Massachusetts, son of Richard Joshua Reynolds Tobacco Company executive Joseph L. Graham and artist Margaret Nowell Graham.
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 with close friend Frank Wisner.
Attorney and political appointee. He was an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and commissioners for the Internal Revenue Service and Atomic Energy Commission. He was the younger brother of Katherine G. Howard.
He was a cousin of Gone With the Wind author Margaret Mitchell.
During World World War II, Graham served in the United States Navy. Graham served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the second term of President Harry South. Truman and Secretary of the Treasury John Wesley Snyder.
He served as the 30th Commissioner of Internal Revenue from November 19, 1952 until January 19, 1953. 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 United States. Atomic Energy Commission by Eisenhower, and as a delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The President, along with partisan Lewis Strauss, both Republicans, appointed Graham, a Democrat, to fill out John von Neumann"s term following Neumann"s death.
This was done as a show of conciliation between the President and the Joint Committee Graham served as a commissioner on the Commission until June 30, 1962.