[3][4] His maternal grandfather, Eugene Meyer, bought the bankrupt Post shortly after stepping down as Chairman of the Federal Reserve in mid-1933.
[8] From January 1969 to June 1970, Graham joined the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia as a patrolman.
[8] Eugene Meyer, Graham's maternal grandfather, bought The Washington Post at a bankruptcy sale in 1933.
She led The Washington Post newspaper for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that helped expose misdeeds of President Richard Nixon, who was persuaded to resign.
[11] Graham was elected to the board of the company in September 1974; in 1976 he was appointed as executive vice president and general manager of the Post.
She retained her corporate positions of chairman of the board and CEO of The Washington Post Company.
She is a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Taubman Center, focusing on such issues as health and safety regulations.
On June 30, 2012, Graham married Amanda Bennett, the current CEO of U.S. Agency for Global Media.
She formerly edited The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Lexington Herald-Leader, was the former director of Voice of America, and former executive editor at Bloomberg News.