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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name             = George Perry Graham
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|size=100%}}
| image            = Hon. Geo. P. Graham, 7-13-22 LCCN2016846558 (cropped).jpg
| caption          = Graham in 1922
| office           = [[Senate of Canada|Senator]] for Eganville, Ontario
| appointed        = [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]]
| term_start       = 1926
| term_end         = 1943
| constituency_MP2 = [[Essex South (federal electoral district)|Essex South]]
| parliament2      = Canadian
| predecessor2     = [[John Wesley Brien]]
| successor2       = [[Eccles James Gott]]
| term_start2      = 1921
| term_end2        = 1925
| constituency_MP3 = [[Renfrew South (federal electoral district)|Renfrew South]]
| parliament3      = Canadian
| predecessor3     = [[Thomas Andrew Low]]
| successor3       = [[Isaac Ellis Pedlow]]
| term_start3      = 1912
| term_end3        = 1917
| constituency_MP4 = [[Brockville (federal electoral district)|Brockville]]
| parliament4      = Canadian
| predecessor4     = [[Daniel Derbyshire]]
| successor4       = [[John Webster (Canadian politician)|John Webster]]
| term_start4      = 1907
| term_end4        = 1911
| office5          = [[Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)|Ontario MPP]]
| predecessor5     = [[George Augustus Dana]]
| successor5       = [[Albert Edward Donovan]]
| term_start5      = 1898
| term_end5        = 1907
| constituency5    = [[Brockville (provincial electoral district)|Brockville]]
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1859|03|31}}
| birth_place      = Eganville, Canada West
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1943|01|01|1859|03|31}}
| death_place      = Brockville, Ontario
| nationality      = 
| spouse           = 
| party            = [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
| otherparty       = [[Ontario Liberal Party]]
| relations        = 
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'''George Perry Graham''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} (March 31, 1859 &ndash; January 1, 1943) was a journalist, editor and politician in [[Ontario]], Canada.

In the [[1898 Ontario general election|1898 Ontario provincial election]], he was elected to the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]] for [[Brockville (provincial electoral district)|Brockville]], and re-elected in [[1902 Ontario general election|1902]] and [[1905 Ontario general election|1905]]. In 1904, he was appointed to the [[Cabinet (government)|cabinet]] as [[Provincial Secretary]] by [[Premier of Ontario|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 Party of Canada|Liberal]] government of [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] Sir [[Wilfrid Laurier]].

Ross won the [[Brockville (federal electoral district)|Brockville]] seat in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] in a [[by-election]] in 1907. He was defeated in the [[1911 Canadian federal election|1911 federal election]] that brought [[Robert Borden]]'s [[Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942)|Conservatives]] to power, but returned to the House of Commons in a 1912 by-election. He did not run in the 1917 election, but then was elected in [[Essex South (federal electoral district)|Essex South]] in 1921.

In 1921, he served in a number of defence portfolios ([[Minister of Militia and Defence]] and [[Minister of the Naval Service (Canada)|Minister of the Naval Service]] from 1921 to 1922 and then as [[Minister of National Defence (Canada)|Minister of Defence]] from January 1 to April 27, 1923) in the first cabinet of [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]]. He lost his seat in the [[1925 Canadian federal election|1925 federal election]], but was appointed to the [[Senate of Canada]] in 1926, and sat in that body until his death in 1943. He was appointed as a member of the [[King's Privy Council for Canada]] in 1907<ref>{{Cite web |last=Office |first=Privy Council |date=2017-12-11 |title=King's Privy Council for Canada - Privy Council Office |url=https://www.canada.ca/en/privy-council/services/king-privy-council-canada.html |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=www.canada.ca}}</ref> and as a member of the [[Privy Council (United Kingdom)|Privy Council of the United Kingdom]] in 1925.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Page 4259 {{!}} Issue 33060, 26 June 1925 {{!}} London Gazette {{!}} The Gazette |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33060/page/4259 |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=www.thegazette.co.uk}}</ref>

==Electoral record==
{{1908 Canadian federal election/Brockville}}
{{1911 Canadian federal election/Brockville}}

==See also==
*[[:Category:Canadian journalists|Canadian journalists]]
*[[Politics of Canada]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=12763}}
* {{OntarioMPPbio|id=george-perry-graham}}
* [http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=99818&lang=eng George Perry Graham fonds, Library and Archives Canada]

==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|George Perry Graham}}

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