Henry Morgenthau III was an American author and television producer, and scion of the Morgenthau dynasty and member of the Lehman family.
Morgenthau in the Princeton University yearbook, 1939
Morgenthau with his father Henry Jr. and grandfather Henry Sr. c. 1922
Morgenthau in the Princeton University yearbook, 1939
Henry Morgenthau was a German-born American lawyer and businessman, best known for his role as the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Morgenthau was one of the most prominent America
Henry Morgenthau III
…Jr., who was Franklin D. Roosevelt's U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. He was born into an ethnically Jewish family. He was a grandson of US Ambassador Henry Morgenthau Sr. and grandnephew of New York Governor and Senator Herbert H. Lehman. He was the brother of former New York County District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau…
Portrait by Harris & Ewing c. 1920s
Morgenthau (left), Samuel Train Dutton (center) and Cleveland Hoadley Dodge c. 1915–1920
A telegram written by Morgenthau to the State Department in 1915 described the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as a "campaign of race extermination."