page_title: Lucretia del Valle Grady
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Lucretia del Valle Grady / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Henry F.Grady, U.S. Ambassador-designate to India and Mrs. Grady photographed on their arrival at Willingdon aerodrome, New Delhi, on June 25, 1949. Photo Number:-454th
context_page_description: Lucretia del Valle Grady was a Democratic Party official from California, the daughter of Reginaldo Francisco del Valle, and the wife of diplomat Henry F. Grady.
context_section_description: Beginning in 1912, Lucretia del Valle starred as Doña Josefa Yorba in about 850 shows of a popular outdoor pageant at Mission San Gabriel, The Mission Play. A large painting of del Valle in this role, Guy Rose's The Leading Lady (1914), hangs at the San Diego History Center, in Balboa Park. Also in 1912, she appeared in The Landslide, a contemporary drama by Austin Adams, which ran in Los Angeles.
  Del Valle left acting for political work, first with her father, and then with her husband, but also in her own right. Lucretia del Valle Grady was a California delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1928, 1936, 1940, and 1956. She was Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee in 1937, when her husband Henry Grady became assistant Secretary of State, and the couple moved to Washington D. C..
  In 1946, she christened the S. S. President Cleveland, a large passenger liner. She was active as a diplomat's wife when Henry Grady became the first United States Ambassador to the newly independent India in 1947. Henry Grady was ambassador to Greece in 1948, where Lucretia became the first woman named an honorary citizen of Athens; and in 1950 the couple were in Iran, where Lucretia Grady promoted women's rights, including suffrage.
caption: Henry F. Grady and his wife arriving India as US Ambassador in 1949
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