George Perry Graham

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Rt. Hon. George Perry Graham, PC

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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Parliament of Canada
Preceded by Daniel Derbyshire	Member of Parliament from Brockville 1907 – 1911	Succeeded by John Webster
Preceded by Thomas Andrew Low	Member of Parliament from Renfrew South 1912 – 1917	Succeeded by Isaac Ellis Pedlow
Preceded by John Wesley Brien	Member of Parliament from Essex South 1922 – 1925	Succeeded by Eccles James Gott
Political offices
Preceded by George Augustus Dana	Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from Brockville 1898 – 1908	Succeeded by Albert Edward Donovan
Preceded by George William Ross	Ontario Liberal leaders 1907	Succeeded by A.G. MacKay
Preceded by William Stevens Fielding (acting)	Minister of Railways and Canals 1907 – 1911	Succeeded by Francis Cochrane
Preceded by Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne	Minister of the Naval Service 1921 – 1922	Succeeded by Minister of the Naval Service was abolished
Preceded by Hugh Guthrie	Minister of Militia and Defence 1921 – 1922	Succeeded by Minister of Militia and Defence was abolished
Preceded by Minister of National Defence proclaimed in force January 1, 1923	Minister of National Defence 1923	Succeeded by Edward Mortimer Macdonald
Preceded by William Costello Kennedy	Minister of Railways and Canals 1923 – 1926	Succeeded by Charles Avery Dunning

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