Biography of Donald E. Graham

Gold Plaque Award recipient American businessman Donald E Graham currently serves as Chairman of Graham Holdings (formerly The Washington Post Company), a conglomerate holding company. In 1991, Graham was the CEO of the company and has served as president since 1993. The Harvard University assistant, in addition to his own company, also had a partnership with Facebook; He served as a Senior Independent Director on Facebook’s Board of Directors (2009-2015) .

Early Life of Donald E. Graham: Family Background and Education

Born on April 22, 1945, in the United States, Graham is the son of Katherine Graham (1917-2001) and Philip Graham (1915-1963) . Both parents ran the family newspaper. The Washington Post, which was purchased by his maternal grandfather, Eugene Meyer . His maternal grandmother’s name was Agnes Meyer .

Shortly after retiring as Federal Reserve chairman in mid- 1993, Graham’s maternal grandfather bought the paper in bankruptcy and has passed down the burgeoning family business ever since. Reportedly, Donald’s father was a Lutheran, while Katharine’s mother was of a Jewish father (later christened Lutheran) and a Lutheran mother.

After school of st. albans, Donald E. Graham went to Harvard College, graduating in 1996 .

What is your age in 2021?

As of March 2021, Donald is 75 years old.

Early Career In College’s Daily News, US Army and Police Department.

While in college, Graham served as president of the daily college breakfast. The Harvard Crimson. After graduation, Donald volunteered in the Army and as part of the US Army’s 1st Calvary Division, he served in the Vietnam War (from 1967-1968). then in 1969, he joined the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department as a patrolman for one year.

Serves as Chairman of Graham Holdings Company

Donald E. Graham joined his family’s newspaper business. the washington post in 1971 as a reporter at first. His grandfather had bought a bankrupt newspaper outlet at the time where Grahm’s father was editor and later co-owner of The Washington Postal Company while his mother was senior editor of The Washington Post newspaper.

In September 1974, he was elected to the company’s board of directors, and by 1976, he became the newspaper’s executive vice president and general manager. In 1979, Donal succeeded his mother as editor of the Washington Post.

It was in 1991, the American businessman saw more managerial responsibilities after becoming the CEO of the company. Two years later, Graham took over as president of the Washington Post Company, which would be incorporated into the Graham Holdings Company in 2013 .

Other than these, Donald Graham later served as Facebook’s board of directors from 2009 to 2015 . Also, between 2001 & 2010, he was a member of the board of the Pulitzer Prize.

How much is Donald E. Graham net worth in 2021?

Online sources estimate that Donald, the president of Graham Properties, has a $500 million net worth as of early 2021 . According to Wallmine, the American businessman was worth $308 million as of March 2019 – courtesy of 6,900 units of Graham Co stock. Over the past decade, Graham reportedly sold more than $9,294,947 worth of GHC shares.

As of March 1, 2021, the Graham Portfolio Company has a market capitalization of $2.923 billion with each share trading for $584.28.

Back in 2013, the Washington Post was sold to Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos for $0 million. Later, the company adopted an umbrella name. Graham Holding Company, valid since November 29, 2013, and its holdings include SocialCode , the online magazine Slate & Graham’s Media Group. Reportedly, as the president of the company, he earns a salary of $362,174.

According to Forbes, the Graham family is #139 in America’s Richest Families 2015, with a collective net worth of $1.8 billion.

married life and children

Donald Graham has been married twice in his life and currently lives with his second wife Amanda Bennett , the director of Voice of America and former executive editor of Bloomberg News . they were married on June 30, 2012, and have been together ever since, but do not share any children.

Rather, Amanda is the mother of 2 children with her late husband. She and Terence Foley have 4 stepchildren from the previous marriage of her second husband, David

Prior to Bennett, Graham was in a marital relationship with Maria Wissler . Wissler is a writer and co-director of the Transparency Policy Project at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The now-former duo met at Harvard and later got married in 1967. They even shared 4 children (including Laura, Molly, and Will) together, but parted ways after 40 years of marriage in 2007 .

His daughter Laura is currently the President of Graham Participations & was previously the CEO of VidaSocial