George Perry Graham
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Rt. Hon. George Perry Graham, PC |
The Right Honourable George Perry Graham, PC (
31 March 1859 –
1 January 1943) was a journalist, editor and politician in
Ontario,
Canada.
In the
1898 Ontario provincial election, he was elected to the
Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and re-elected in 1902 and 1905. In 1904, he was appointed to the
cabinet as
Provincial Secretary by
Premier George William Ross and served in that position until the Ross government losst the
election of 1905.
When Ross resigned as leader of the
Ontario Liberal Party in 1907, Graham briefly succeeded him, but quickly left later that year for federal politics when he was appointed Minister of Railway and Canals in the
Liberal government of Sir
Wilfrid Laurier.
Ross won a seat in the
Canadian House of Commons in a
by-election in 1907. He was defeated in the
1911 federal election that brought
Robert Borden's
Conservatives to power, but returned to the House of Commons in a 1912 by-election.
In 1921, he served in a number of defence portfolios in the
Cabinet of
William Lyon Mackenzie King. He lost his seat in the
1925 federal election, but was appointed to the
Canadian Senate in 1926, and sat in that body until his death in 1943.
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Political biography from the Library of Parliament
