Westchester County Police Board and has served on the boards of Red Cross of Westchester, the Boy Scouts of America, Princeton Center for Leadership Training, Jack & Jill Foundation, and Council on Economic Priorities. Graham was also a trustee of SUNY Purchase College Foundation, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, the Eaglebrook School; the American Theatre Wing, co-presenters of the Tony Awards and the Horace Mann School in New York City. 2000 Congressional campaign During the 2000 United States House of Representatives elections, Graham challenged incumbent Republican Sue W. Kelly for her seat in New York's 19th congressional district. He was unsuccessful. Personal life Graham was married to corporate executive Pamela Thomas-Graham. They lived in Manhattan and in Chappaqua, New York, and had three children. He was Catholic. Death Graham died in Chappaqua on February 19, 2021. He was buried at Ferncliff Cemetery in Westchester. Books Graham's books centralize on African-American social class. The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty (2006) – This is the true story of America's first black dynasty and follows three generations of a family that rose from slavery to the U.S. Senate. Born a Mississippi slave in 1841, Blanche Kelso Bruce amassed a real estate fortune and became the first black person to serve a full Senate term. He married Josephine Willson, the daughter of a wealthy black doctor, and they broke racial barriers as a socialite couple in 1880s Washington, D.C. By hosting white Republicans like President Ulysses S. Grant and notable black people such as Frederick Douglass, Bruce gained appointments under four Presidents, culminating with a US Treasury post which placed his name on all U.S. currency. Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class (1999) – Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard and Sag Harbor. Membership in The Links, Jack and Jill, Deltas, Boulés, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, churches, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group. A television series based on the book began airing on the Fox network in the fall of 2021. Proversity: Getting Past Face Value (1997) Member of The Club: Reflections on Life in a Polarized World (1995) – Member of the Club was Graham's eleventh book,