George Perry Graham (1859-1943) was a journalist and editor in his early career. In 1898 he was elected to the Ontario legislature 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 and won a by-election in 1907. He was defeated in the 1911 Canadian election that brought Robert Borden's Conservatives to power but returned to the Canadian 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 Canadian election but was summoned to the Canadian Senate in 1926 and sat in that body until his death in 1943.