George Perry Graham

The Right Hon. George Perry Graham
Senator for Eganville, Ontario
In office 1926–1943
Appointed by	William Lyon Mackenzie King
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Essex South
In office 1921–1925
Preceded by	John Wesley Brien
Succeeded by	Eccles James Gott
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Renfrew South
In office 1912–1917
Preceded by	Thomas Andrew Low
Succeeded by	Isaac Ellis Pedlow
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Brockville
In office 1907–1911
Preceded by	Daniel Derbyshire
Succeeded by	John Webster
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Brockville
In office 1898–1908
Preceded by	George Augustus Dana
Succeeded by	Albert Edward Donovan
Personal details
Born	March 31, 1859 Eganville, Canada West
Died	January 1, 1943 (aged 83)
Political party	Liberal
Other political affiliations	Ontario Liberal Party

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 lost 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.

References

• George Perry Graham – Parliament of Canada biography
• Ontario Legislative Assembly Parliamentarian History

See also

• Canadian journalists
• Politics of Canada