Lally Weymouth | |
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Lally Weymouth, 2009
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Born | Washington D.C., United States |
Spouse(s) | Yann Weymouth (m. 1963–69) |
Children |
Katharine Weymouth, Pamela Alma Weymouth |
Elizabeth Morris "Lally" Graham Weymouth is an American journalist who serves as Senior Associate Editor of the Washington Post. She previously served as Special Diplomatic Correspondent of Newsweek magazine, during her family's ownership of the publication.
She is the eldest of the four children of Katharine Graham and Philip Graham, both of whom were publishers of the Post. Her maternal grandmother, Agnes Meyer, was a German Lutheran. Her maternal grandfather, Eugene Meyer, was German Jewish and descended from a rabbinical family in Strasbourg. He bought the bankrupt Post shortly after stepping down as Chairman of the Federal Reserve in mid-1933. Her mother was baptized as a Lutheran but attended an Episcopal church while growing up. The eldest of her three brothers is Donald E. Graham, who was the publisher of the Post from 1979 to 2000, a position held by Weymouth's daughter Katharine Weymouth from 2008 until 2014.
Weymouth attended The Madeira School and graduated from Radcliffe College at Harvard University cum laude with a degree in American History and Literature.
From 1968 to 1969, Weymouth worked for Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.