Harry Graham Balter; Longtime Civic Leader
Harry Graham Balter, one of the youngest U.S. attorneys in California history and a leader of several municipal and religious organizations, died Tuesday at age 82 at UCLA Medical Center.
A past president of the Los Angeles Psychiatric Board, the Metropolitan Housing Council and the Jewish Committee for Personal Service, Balter became an assistant attorney in 1928 at age 25, shortly after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley.
He left federal service and entered private practice in 1935.
He was the author of “Tax Fraud and Evasion,” a standard law text now in its fifth printing, and was a contributing editor to the Journal of Taxation.
His survivors include his wife, Ethel; a son, David; a daughter, Glorial Manoil, and five grandchildren.
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