John Stephens Graham (1905-1976) was a Washington, D.C. attorney and
political appointee.He was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, son of
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company executive Joseph L. Graham and Margaret
Nowell Graham. He was the younger brother of Katherine G. Howard. 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. He married
Elizabeth Foster Breckinridge (1901-2005), daughter of Henry S.
Breckinridge and member of the prominent Breckinridge family. He was a
cousin of Gone With the Wind author Margaret Mitchell.