George Graham

George Graham (14 December 1945 – 21 February 2012) was a Northern Irish unionist politician and estate agent who was most prominent during his time with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).

Background Graham lived in Kilkeel, where he operated his own estate agency. He was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly at the 1982 election to represent South Down and remained a member until the Assembly shut down in 1986, serving as a member of the Agriculture, Finance and Personnel and Health and Social Services committees.

Graham ran afoul of the DUP leadership in 1987 when he continued to attend council meetings despite the party having adopted a policy of abstentionism in response to the Anglo-Irish Agreement. He finally left the DUP in January 1989 and was re-elected in May under the label "Protestant". He subsequently ran in the 1998 Assembly election in South Down as an independent Unionist but he was eliminated on the first count.

He died on 21 February 2012 after succumbing to an illness in hospital. He had been in failing health for a number of years.