Henry Morgenthau III

Who they were

Henry Morgenthau III was an American author and television producer, and scion of the Morgenthau dynasty and member of the Lehman family.

Early life

Family Morgenthau with his father Henry Jr. and grandfather Henry Sr. c. 1922 Henry Morgenthau III was the son of Elinor (née Fatman) , granddaughter of Mayer Lehman , a co-founder of Lehman Brothers [ 1 ] and Henry Morgenthau Jr. , who was Franklin D. Roosevelt 's U.S. Secretary of the Treasury . [ 2 ] He was born into an ethnically Jewish family. He was a grandson of US Ambassador Henry Morgenthau Sr. and grandnephew [ 3 ] of New York Governor and Senator Herbert H. Lehman . [ 4 ]

Early life and education Morgenthau in the Princeton University yearbook, 1939 He graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1935 and 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 Daily Princetonian . Despite his family's social stature, Morgenthau was frozen out of bicker (excluded from Eating club membership) as a sophomore in 1937, along with four of the other 11 Jewish students in the class. [

Path and career

Career 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 , while serving as President of Gannaway-Morgenthau Productions, Inc. [ citation needed ] From 1955 to 1977, Morgenthau was a chief producer of WGBH (Boston). [ 1 ] His shows at WGBH won Peabody , Emmy , United Press International ,

Why this date

Henry Morgenthau III appears on our July 10 calendar for 2018 as a death entry.