Louis-Philippe McGraw

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Louis-Philippe McGraw is a politician in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. He is a former member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick and is currently a candidate for that office again in the 2006 provincial election.

McGraw began his involvement in politics as a Liberal and was youth chair of Bernard Richard's unsuccessful bid for the Liberal leadership in 1998. He joined the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick and was elected to the legislature in 1999 to represent the electoral district of Centre-Péninsule.

He was defeated in a bid for re-election in 2003 by Denis Landry, whom McGraw had defeated in 1999. McGraw was defeated in a third rematch against Landry in the 2006 election.

From the 2006 federal election until the provincial campaign later that year, McGraw served as an advisor to federal cabinet minister Greg Thompson.