George Frederick Graham is a former political activist currently living in Ajax, Ontario

Ajax, Ontario

Ajax is a town in the Durham Region in the Greater Toronto Area.The town is named for the HMS Ajax a Royal Navy cruiser that served in World War II. Ajax is a part of the Greater Toronto Area and the...

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Between 1984 and 1987, Graham ran as a Libertarian candidate in one federal general election (1984), two provincial general elections (1985 and 1987) and one provincial by-election (1984). In 1986, Graham ran for Deputy Leader of the Ontario Libertarian Party

Ontario Libertarian Party

The Ontario Libertarian Party is a political party in Ontario, Canada that was founded in 1975 by Bruce Evoy, Vince Miller, and others, inspired by the formation three years earlier of the US Libertarian Party. The Party is guided by adherence to the philosophical ideas of Austrian Economics and...

, losing to current Party Treasurer Jim McIntosh.

In 1988, Graham was elected to the Executive Committee of the Ontario Libertarian Party as Member-at-Large. He was defeated in his bid for re-election the following year. In November 2006 he was elected to that Party's Executive Committee as Member-at-Large, the same position he'd held seventeen years earlier.

George Graham writes occasional columns for LewRockwell.com

LewRockwell.com

LewRockwell.com is a 501 libertarian web magazine operated by Burton Blumert , Lew Rockwell , Eric Garris , and others associated with the Center for Libertarian Studies ; its motto is "anti-state, anti-war, pro-market"...

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Electoral history

• 1984 - Canadian federal election - received 329 votes (0.6%) in Willowdale
  Willowdale (electoral district)
  Willowdale is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979.The riding was created in 1976 from part of Eglinton....
  
   riding. (Winner: John Oostrom
  John Oostrom
  John Martin Oostrom is a former business executive and Canadian parliamentarian. He was the first Dutch-born Canadian elected to the Canadian House of Commons-Life:...
  
  , Progressive Conservative)
• 1984 - Ontario by-election - received 162 votes (0.8%) in Wentworth North constituency. (Winner: Ann Sloat
  Ann Sloat
  Frances Ann Sloat is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1984 to 1985, although she never actually sat in the assembly. Sloat was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.She was born in Stratford, Ontario, and was educated...
  
  , Progressive Conservative)
• 1985 - Ontario general election - received 1,106 votes (3.1%) in Oriole constituency. (Winner: Elinor Caplan
  Elinor Caplan
  Elinor Caplan, PC is a retired politician and businesswoman in Ontario, Canada. She served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1997, and was a Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004...
  
  , Liberal)
• 1987 - Ontario general election - received 822 votes (3.0%) in Oriole constituency. (Winner: Elinor Caplan, Liberal)

Articles

• "What Cruise Ship Did You Take During the War?" LewRockwell.com. October 27, 2006.
• "Sorry About That" LewRockwell.com. October 23, 2006.
• "The Debate That Refuses to Die" LewRockwell.com. October 10, 2006.
• "You Think Breaking Up Is Hard to Do?" Fraser Forum. The Fraser Institute: November 1997.
• "Capital Punishment No Deterrent?" Fraser Forum. The Fraser Institute: May 1995.
• "Jets' Taxpayer-financed Bailout Should be Shot Down" Fraser Forum. The Fraser Institute: September 1994.
• "Economics Lost in Space" Fraser Forum. The Fraser Institute: July 1994.

Books

• Challenging Perceptions: Twenty-Five Years of Influential Ideas. The Fraser Institute: 1999