Henry F. Grady

On August 24, 1942, she married diplomat John Paton Davies, Jr. Grady worked at the US Commerce Department in economics as an aide to Secretary Herbert Hoover in 1921.

He then moved to Washington as a prominent economist in the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, rising to assistant secretary of state in 1939.

[2] In October 1945, he was appointed by US President Harry S. Truman as his personal representative to the Allied commission supervising elections in Greece because of the volatile situation created by the Greek Civil War.

He sharply disagreed with Secretary of State Dean Acheson regarding American support of British domination of Iran, and was fired as ambassador.

He died September 14, 1957, on board the SS President Wilson, Pacific Ocean, from heart failure and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, California.

Henry F. Grady, U.S. Ambassador-designate to India, and his wife on their arrival at Willingdon aerodrome, New Delhi, on June 25, 1949.