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Thomas Graham Jr. (diplomat)
Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. is one of the world's leading experts in nuclear non-proliferation. He is a senior U.S. diplomat involved in the negotiation of every single international arms control and non-proliferation agreement from 1970 to 1997. This includes the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT Treaties), the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties (START Treaties), the Anti-ballistic missile (ABM) Treaty, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) Treaty, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NPT), Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty and Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). In 1993, Ambassador Graham served as Acting Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) from January to November, 1993 and Acting Deputy Director from November, 1993 to July, 1994. From 1994 through 1997, he was president Bill Clinton's special representative for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation, and Disarmament. Graham successfully led the U.S. government efforts to achieve the permanent extension of the NPT in 1995. Graham also served for 15 years as the general counsel of ACDA. Throughout his career, Thomas Graham has worked with six U.S. Presidents including Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. Ambassador Graham worked on the negotiation of the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention and managed the Senate approval of the ratification of the Geneva Protocol banning the use of chemical and biological weapons in war, as well as the Biological Weapons Convention.
In addition, Ambassador Graham is also the board chairman of "CanAlaska Uranium Ltd". Thomas Graham is also a member of the New York, the District of Columbia and Kentucky Bars as well as the Council on Foreign Relations. From 1986-1994 he chaired the committee on ''Arms Control and Disarmament'' of the American Bar Association. Graham is also the executive chairman of the "Lightbridge Corporation"
==Early life==
Thomas Graham Jr. grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. He attended the Louisville Male High School. Graham comes from a political family. His great-uncle, ''Robert Connor'', was lieutenant governor of Wisconsin under governor ''Robert LaFollette'' and chairman of the Republican Party in Wisconsin for many years. His grandmother's sister was the grandmother of ''Melvin Laird'', President Nixon's secretary of defense. And his grandfather, ''Thomas Jackson Graham'' was a Presbyterian minister who moved to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1920 to take over the Warren Memorial Presbyterian Church, the largest Presbyterian church in the city at that time. Graham's father, Thomas Graham was the chairman of the ''sinking fund'' in Louisville. He was an active Democrat, served for many years as treasurer of the Democratic Party in Louisville, and remained extremely politically active all his life.
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