Henry Woodfin Grady (May 24, 1850 – December 23, 1889) was a journalist and orator who helped reintegrate the states of the Confederacy into the Union after the American Civil War.
Grady encouraged the industrialization of the South and also preached white supremacy, emphasizing that it was necessary for whites to remain in social control over the newly free blacks.
Grady was the father-in-law of Federal Reserve Chairman Eugene Robert Black and grandfather of banker and World Bank President Eugene R.