William Graham (Welsh politician)
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William Graham is a Conservative politician, currently education spokesman in the National Assembly for Wales and Chief Whip.
Born November 1949 in Newport, Monmouthshire and educated at Blackfriars School. William Graham is married with three children. He is the sixth generation principal of a family firm of surveyors in Newport established in 1844.
He is a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and has been Chairman of Newport Harbour Commission and Rougemont School Trust, Newport. He is also a member of numerous organisations, including the Listed Building Advisory Committee and the Rent Assessment Committee for Wales.
William Graham is currently the Conservative education spokesman in the National Assembly, Chairman of the Conservative Group and Chief Whip. He is also Chairman of the Assembly House Committee and a Member of the Assembly Shadow Commission. He has been an active Conservative politician from the 1980s when he was elected to the Monmouthshire County Council, then a Newport councillor and Leader of the Conservative Group on the City Council until standing down in 2004.
Graham has been an active member of the National Assembly for South Wales East since the first Assembly elections in May 1999. He contested the Newport West Constituency in the 1999 and 2003 Assembly elections. As a result of changes to the election rules in the Government of Wales Act 2006, he was selected as leading Conservative List Candidate for South Wales East for the May 2007 Assembly elections.
