Henry Morgenthau III
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| Born |
January 11, 1917 New York City, New York |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | Princeton University |
| Occupation | author and television producer |
| Spouse(s) | Ruth Schachter Morgenthau |
| Children | Sarah Morgenthau Wessel H. "Ben" Morgenthau Kramer Morgenthau |
| Parent(s) |
Elinor Fatman Morgenthau Henry Morgenthau Jr. |
| Family |
Barbara Tuchman (cousin) Mayer Lehman (great grandfather) |
Henry Morgenthau III (born January 11, 1917) is an American author and television producer, and scion of the famous Morgenthau dynasty and member of the Lehman family.
Henry Morgenthau III is the son of Elinor (née Fatman), granddaughter of Mayer Lehman, a co-founder of Lehman Brothers and Henry Morgenthau Jr., who was Franklin D. Roosevelt's U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. He is also the grandson of US Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Sr. and grandnephew of New York Governor and Senator Herbert H. Lehman. Henry Morgenthau III is brother of former New York County District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, as well as of Joan Elizabeth Morgenthau Hirschhorn (October 9, 1922 – October 1, 2012), who was professor of clinical pediatrics and preventive medicine and the associate dean for student affairs at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. His cousin is eminent American historian Barbara Tuchman.
Henry Morgenthau III graduated from Princeton University in 1939. During his time at university, he ran on the cross country team, worked on Theatre Intime, and was an editorial-board member of the Princetonian. Despite his family's social stature, Morgenthau was frozen out of bicker in 1937, along with four of the other 11 Jewish students in the class.
During World War II, Morgenthau served in the US Army. From 1945 he was involved in the television business, at various times working as an author, producer and manager for the larger national institutions like NBC, CBS and ABC. From 1955 to 1977, Morgenthau was a chief producer of WGBH (Boston). His shows at WGBH won Peabody, Emmy, UPI, Educational Film Library Association, and Flaherty Film Festival awards. Also he was the acting program manager at WYNC. Morgenthau served as a vice president of the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. He also was a manager of the Morse Communication Center at the Brandeis University.
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