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Graham was born on June 10, 1764, in Connecticut, the grandson of John Graham, an Edinburgh clergyman and near connection of the Marquis of Montrose, who, emigrating in 1718, became in 1732 the first minister in that part of Woodbury which is now Southbury, Connecticut His father, Andrew Graham, a prominent surgeon, married Martha Curtiss and resided at Southbury, where he was born.
Graham received an excellent classical education at the hands of a private tutor and in 1781 entered the law office of Edward Hinman at Southbury.
On his admission to the Connecticut bar in 1785 Graham moved to Vermont and opened a law office at Rutland. Practising chiefly in the court of common pleas, he soon acquired an extensive business and in 1790 was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the state. In October 1794, as delegate from Rutland, he attended the Episcopal Convention of Vermont, at which the selection of a bishop was the chief matter of business. On his nomination his friend and relative, Rev. Samuel Peters, was elected, and since the latter was then in England, Graham was dispatched thither as diocesan agent to procure, if possible, the consecration of Peters in England. He displayed great diplomacy and resource on this mission but in the end was unsuccessful. Returning to Vermont in November 1795, he made his report, then in 1796 he betook himself again to England, where he remained for the next three years. During this time he wrote A Descriptive Sketch of the Present State of Vermont (1797), became well known in literary and political circles, and was an intimate friend of Horne Tooke. When Graham returned to the United States, he resumed practice in Rutland, but in 1803 went to Washington, D. C. , finally making his home in New York City. Admitted to the New York bar in 1805, Graham practiced chiefly in the criminal courts, where he soon acquired a wide reputation through his spectacular eloquence and versatility. Of good presence, always respectful to the court, extremely effective in eliciting the sympathy of the jury and having a ready command of picturesque language, he became one of the most popular advocates in New York. His protest against the practice of examining in private, and without the aid of counsel, a person accused of crime, and subsequently using the testimony as evidence against him at his trial, created a sensation and led to an amendment of the code by the legislature. In 1812 he published his Speeches Delivered at the City-Hall of the City of New York, in the Courts of Oyer and Terminer, Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace, which, despite a considerable strain of somewhat tinseled rhetoric, shows him to have been an impressive speaker. He also wrote Memoirs of John Horne Tooke, Together with his Valuable Speeches and Writings: Also Containing Proofs Identifying Him As the Author of the Celebrated Letters of Junius (1828). He died on August 29, 1841.
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Graham was twice married: first to Rachel Freeman Hodges of Clarendon, Vermont, and second to Margaret Lorimer, daughter of James Lorimer of London, England.
