in the city of New York. In 2016 he received the Leo Baeck Medal. Personal life His first wife was Martha Pattridge, a Christian, whom he met in college; they had five children: Joan Morgenthau Wadsworth, Anne Pattridge Morgenthau Grand, Robert Pattridge Morgenthau, Elinor Gates Morgenthau, and Barbara Elizabeth Morgenthau Lee. They raised their children in the Jewish faith. Martha died in 1972. Morgenthau was devastated by her death, and for a while afterward, he refused to talk about her in order to avoid memories of her death. In 1977, he married Lucinda Franks, an author who in 1971 won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. She was also Christian. They had two children: Joshua Franks Morgenthau (born 1984), and Amy Elinor Morgenthau (born 1990). They lived in New York City. They remained married until his death and Franks survived him until she died on May 5, 2021. His son Joshua runs the family farm, Fishkill Farms, founded by Henry Morgenthau Jr. Death Morgenthau died at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan on July 21, 2019 after a short illness. He was ten days shy of his 100th birthday. References External links 1919 births 2019 deaths Lawyers from New York City Military personnel from New York City Jewish American military personnel American people of German-Jewish descent American Ashkenazi Jews Jewish American people in New York (state) politics United States Attorneys for the Southern District of New York New York (state) Democrats New York (state) lawyers New York County District Attorneys Amherst College alumni Deerfield Academy alumni Ethical Culture Fieldston School alumni Yale Law School alumni Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler people Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz people United States Navy officers United States Navy personnel of World War II Corporate lawyers Lehman family Robert M.