Lally Weymouth

Elizabeth Morris "Lally" Graham Weymouth (born July 3, 1943) is an American journalist, and senior associate editor of The Washington Post. She was previously special diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek magazine during her family's ownership of the publication. Early life and education 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 Lutheran of German ancestry. Her mother was baptised as a Lutheran but attended an Episcopal church while growing up. Her father, Philip (Phil) Leslie Graham, was born to a Lutheran family in Terry, South Dakota. The eldest of her three younger 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, the co-founder of Graham Holdings Company, which has Kaplan tutoring services and The Washington Post among its various subsidiaries. Weymouth attended The Madeira School and graduated from Radcliffe College at Harvard University cum laude with a degree in American history and literature. Her father died by suicide in 1963 in the summer preceding her junior year at college. Career