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- Grant graduated from Troy Conference Academy in 1920, and has a B.S. degree from Colgate University, Theta Chi, followed by further study in economics at Columbia University. Joining the National City Bank of New York, he was sent to England and then to Bombay, India. After four years with the Bank, he joined General Motors India Ltd. on sales work, which kept him in India, Burma and Ceylon for two years
In 1930, he entered the U.S. Department of Commerce Foreign Service and had a tour of duty as a Commerce officer, in Argentina and Uruguay. Meeting Mr. T. C. Ballagh in Buenos Aires, the present firm of Ballagh & Thrall, Inc. was established in 1933, with headquarters in Philadelphia, of which Grant Is Executive Vice President and Chairman.
Bandtex International Inc. was formed In 1946 with Grant as President, and later acquired in part by the Fidelity Bank, Philadelphia. He is at present a director of four other companies, past-president of the Foreign Traders Association.
He is an Episcopalian, and member of Rotary International, Union League of Philadelphia, Manufacturers Country Club, and Mayflower Descendants, was a Trustee of Green Mountain College, 1953, and a Trustee of Colgate University 1953-1959, also a Trustee and Past President of International House In Philadelphia, is in "Who's Who In the East" 1959 Edition.
Grant has traveled a great deal and has been a member of three Government Trade Missions to India, Pakistan and East Africa, also was a Public Member of the State Department Review Board in 1960, and an Inspection Team to Malta, Cyprus and Turkey in 1965.
After retirement, Grant was a volunteer with the International Executive Service Corps with tours of duty to Indonesia and Venezuela. [2]
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