Born as Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee on August 26th 1921, he is currently the vice president-at large of Washington DC’s largest and oldest newspaper, The Washington Post. During his tenure as executive editor, from 1968 up to 1991, Benjamin Bradlee became a nationwide figure during the Nixon administration, when he took on the federal government over the entitlement to disclose the Pentagon Papers and supervise the publication of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s stories regarding the Watergate controversy.

Bradlee, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, comes from a line of well-known family members. His father, Frederick Josiah Bradlee Jr, was a descendant of John Bradley, one of the earliest Bradleys to ever set foot in America. Josephine de Gersdorff, his mother, was given the Legion of Honor, as she helped French and German children at the height of the second world war. His mother’s father, Carl August de Gersdorff, was an affluent lawyer from New York and his mother’s mother, Helen Suzette Crowninshield, was a painter and a writer.

Currently, Benjamin Bradlee, who attended Dexter School prior to graduating at St. Mark’s School, acts as the editorial board of the newspaper. He resides in the Todd Lincoln House in Georgetown, Washington DC.