Background
He was born at Waverley to bookkeeper James Joseph Graves and Elizabeth Dobson.
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Career
In 1931 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council. He was expelled from the Labor Party in 1946, but was readmitted in 1947. He left the Council in 1961 and died at Kirrawee in 1964.
Politics
In 1919 he was a member of the Industrial Socialist Labor Party, but he was back in the official Labor fold by 1923, when he was elected a member of the central executive. He would serve as its president from 1927 to 1930 and secretary from 1930 to 1939.
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Political Party
The Australian Labor Party