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In 1914 Mr. Graham resigned his work in Ohio and took up Extension work with the New York State School of Agriculture at Farmingdale, N.Y.  Here he remained a little more than a year, resigning in 1915 to become a member of the staff on the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. 

In 1919 Mr. Graham was placed in charge of the subject-matter section of the Federal Extension Service and continued in that work up to the time of his retirement. 

A. B. Graham retired from the Federal Extension Service, March 31, 1938.  For more than 35 years Mr. Graham was engaged in various phases of agricultural extension works. 

In 1938, C. B. Smith, Assistant Director of Extension at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, wrote the following in an Extension publication: “Mr. Graham’s life has been rich in accomplishment.  There are better rural and consolidated schools in Ohio today because of the years of constructive school work of Mr. Graham.  His early extension work with juniors is remarkably similar to the boys’ and girls’ club work of today, with similar records, similar subject matter, and similar ideals.  In his educational work as a member of the Federal Extension staff he has stood for the highest educational ideals.  He has brought enthusiasm, imagination, and reality into all his extension teaching.  His friends and admirers are in every State.  He brings his public career to a climax, knowing he has fought a good fight, pioneered in new educational fields, made history.  His thousands of colleagues, friends, and students everywhere wish him well throughout all the coming years.”

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