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{{Short description|Canadian politician (born 1951)}}
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| name			= Dale Graham
| image			= 
| office1		= [[Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick]]
| term_start1   = October 27, 2010
| term_end1		= October 25, 2014
| predecessor1	= [[Roy Boudreau]]
| successor1	= [[Chris Collins (Canadian politician)|Chris Collins]]
| office2		= [[Deputy Premier of New Brunswick]]
| term_start2	= June 21, 1999
| term_end2		= October 3, 2006
| premier2		= [[Bernard Lord]]
| predecessor2	= [[Doug Tyler]]
| successor2	= [[Donald Arseneault]]
| office3		= [[Department of Human Resources (New Brunswick)|Minister of Human Resources]]
| term_start3	= February 14, 2006
| term_end3		= October 3, 2006
| premier3		= [[Bernard Lord]]
| predecessor3	= [[Rose-May Poirier]]
| successor3	= [[Hédard Albert]]
| office4		= [[Department of Government Services (New Brunswick)|Minister of Supply and Services]]
| term_start4	= June 21, 1999
| term_end4		= February 14, 2006
| premier4		= [[Bernard Lord]]
| predecessor4	= [[Greg O'Donnell]]
| successor4	= [[Bev Harrison]]
| office5		= Member of the<br />[[New Brunswick Legislative Assembly]]<br /> for [[Carleton (1995–2014 New Brunswick provincial electoral district)|Carleton]]
| term_start5	= September 11, 1995
| term_end5		= September 22, 2014
| predecessor5	= District created
| successor5	= District abolished
| office6		= Member of the<br />[[New Brunswick Legislative Assembly]]<br /> for [[Carleton North (electoral district)|Carleton North]]
| term_start6	= June 28, 1993
| term_end6		= September 11, 1995
| predecessor6	= [[Fred Harvey (politician)|Fred Harvey]]
| successor6	= District abolished
| birth_name    = Dale Allison Graham
| birth_date	= {{Birth date and age|1951|10|6}}
| birth_place	= [[Woodstock, New Brunswick|Woodstock]], [[New Brunswick]]
| death_date	= 
| death_place	= 
| party			= [[Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick|Progressive Conservative]]
}}

'''Dale Allison Graham''' (born October 6, 1951<ref name="parlg">''Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1997'', Kathryn O'Handley {{ISBN|1-896413-43-9}}</ref>) is a former [[politician]] in [[New Brunswick]], Canada.  He served as an [[Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick|MLA]] from 1993 to 2014, as Speaker of the [[Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick]] from 2010 to 2014, and as a member of the [[Executive Council of New Brunswick|provincial cabinet]] from 1999 to 2006.

==Early life and career==
Born in [[Woodstock, New Brunswick|Woodstock]], [[New Brunswick]], the son of Robert Graham and Letha Delong,<ref name="parlg"/> Graham attended school in [[Centreville, New Brunswick|Centreville]]. He became a small business owner and was involved in local politics at the [[school board]] level. He married Shelley McDougall in 1972.<ref name="parlg"/> In the [[1991 New Brunswick general election|1991 provincial election]], Graham was defeated by [[New Brunswick Liberal Association|Liberal]] incumbent [[Fred Harvey (politician)|Fred Harvey]], however Harvey's victory was later declared void when Harvey was convicted of violating election spending laws.  Graham was successful in a [[by-election]] in 1993 winning the [[Carleton North (electoral district)|Carleton North]] seat.  Graham went on to be re-elected in the new [[electoral district]] of [[Carleton (1995-2014 New Brunswick provincial electoral district)|Carleton]] in the [[1995 New Brunswick general election|1995]], [[1999 New Brunswick general election|1999]], [[2003 New Brunswick general election|2003]], [[2006 New Brunswick general election|2006]] and [[2010 New Brunswick general election|2010]] [[List of New Brunswick general elections (post-Confederation)|elections]].

Graham's 1993 victory was a key test for his [[Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick]].  His party had been defeated provincially in [[1987 New Brunswick general election|1987]] going from having led the government for 17 years to being shut out of the legislature.  Though the party regained 3 seats in the 58 seat legislature in 1991, the upstart [[Confederation of Regions Party of New Brunswick]] (CoR) had won 8 seats and claimed [[official opposition]].  Graham's victory was seen as a sign that CoR would not necessarily displace the Progressive Conservatives as the voice of [[conservatism]] in [[English Canadian|Anglophone]] New Brunswick.

In 1999, Graham's party was returned to government. Graham, who co-chaired the election campaign, was named [[deputy premier]] and [[Department of Supply and Services (New Brunswick)|Minister of Supply and Services]]. On July 21, 2005, Graham added the responsibilities of [[Department of Environment and Local Government (New Brunswick)|Minister of Environment & Local Government]] on an acting basis when his cabinet colleague [[Brenda Fowlie]] was forced to resign from the cabinet.  He retained the portfolio until November 21, 2005.

In a [[cabinet shuffle]] on February 14, 2006, Graham was shuffled to the post of minister responsible for the [[Office of Human Resources (New Brunswick)|Office of Human Resources]] and for [[Service New Brunswick]]. He retained his honorary post of deputy premier.

His party failed to win a plurality of seats in the 2006 election so Graham left cabinet and returned to opposition.  He was re-elected in 2010 and his party returned to government, and he became [[Father of the House|dean of the legislature]]; he was excluded from cabinet but was elected to serve as speaker of the legislature.  He did not seek re-election in 2014.

== References ==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070902055451/http://www1.gnb.ca/legis/bios1/bio-e.asp?idNo=95&version=e MLA Bios, Government of New Brunswick]

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