George Perry Graham

{{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 = Senator for Eganville, Ontario

| appointed = William Lyon Mackenzie King

| term_start = 1926

| term_end = 1943

| constituency_MP2 = Essex South

| parliament2 = Canadian

| predecessor2 = John Wesley Brien

| successor2 = Eccles James Gott

| term_start2 = 1921

| term_end2 = 1925

| constituency_MP3 = Renfrew South

| parliament3 = Canadian

| predecessor3 = Thomas Andrew Low

| successor3 = Isaac Ellis Pedlow

| term_start3 = 1912

| term_end3 = 1917

| constituency_MP4 = Brockville

| parliament4 = Canadian

| predecessor4 = Daniel Derbyshire

| successor4 = John Webster

| term_start4 = 1907

| term_end4 = 1911

| office5 = Ontario MPP

| predecessor5 = George Augustus Dana

| successor5 = Albert Edward Donovan

| term_start5 = 1898

| term_end5 = 1907

| constituency5 = 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

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| party = Liberal

| otherparty = Ontario Liberal Party

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George Perry Graham, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} (March 31, 1859 – January 1, 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 for Brockville, 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 Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

Ross won the Brockville seat in the House of Commons of Canada 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. He did not run in the 1917 election, but then was elected in 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 from 1921 to 1922 and then as 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 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{{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}} and as a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1925{{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}}.