Editing Gordon Graydon

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{distinguish|Gordon Graydon (Alberta politician)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| name             = Gordon Graydon
| image            = 
| constituency_MP  = [[Peel (federal electoral district)|Peel]]
| parliament       = Canadian
| predecessor      = [[Samuel Charters (Canadian politician)|Samuel Charters]]
| successor        = [[John Pallett]]
| term_start       = October 14, 1935
| term_end         = September 19, 1953
| party            = [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1896|12|7}}
| birth_place      = [[Snelgrove, Ontario]], Canada
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1953|9|19|1896|12|7}}
| death_place      = [[Toronto Township, Ontario|Toronto Township]] (now [[Mississauga]]), [[Ontario]], Canada
| spouse           = 
| children         = 
| profession       = Lawyer
}}
'''Gordon Graydon''' {{post-nominals|QC}} (December 7, 1896 – September 19, 1953) was a Canadian politician who served as the [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Peel (federal electoral district)|Peel]] from 1935 to 1953.

==Background==
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Graydon received his early education at S.S. No. 6 Chinguacousy in the [[Peel Regional Municipality|County of Peel]], [[Ontario]]. He attended [[Brampton High School]] and was a student at [[University of Toronto]] in [[political science]]. He graduated from [[Osgoode Hall Law School]] in 1924. He then became a partner of the late Justice [[William Raney]], one-time [[Attorney General of Ontario]].

In 1933, at the age of 36, Graydon became the President of the Peel County Conservative Association. He was the youngest man ever to hold that position. In 1934, he helped rejuvenate the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario|Conservative Party of Ontario]] by forming [[Progressive Conservative Youth Federation|Young Conservative Clubs]] at a time when the party's existence was threatened.

He was a member of Grace United Church, Brampton, of several local lodges, including Campbell's Cross Loyal Orange Lodge of the Board of Regents of Victoria College and of the Peel War Records Board.

A [[Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School|high school]] in Mississauga has been named in his honour. A senior public (junior high) school in Brampton, Ontario also bears his name.

[[File:Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School.jpg|660px|Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School]]

==Politics==
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He was one of thirty-five Conservative candidates who survived the [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party]] landslide of the [[1935 Canadian federal election|1935 federal election]], winning Peel [[electoral district (Canada)|riding]] for his party.

Graydon was [[Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada)|Opposition Leader]] in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] from 1943 to 1945 because [[John Bracken]], the new leader of the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada]], did not have a seat in the House and chose not to seek one until the [[1945 Canadian federal election|1945 federal election]].

In 1945, he was Canadian delegate to the San Francisco World Conference, and delegate in London, representing Canada on the Preparatory Committee of the [[United Nations]]. He was Alternate Delegate for Canada at the UN's 1st General Assembly 1946, Parliamentary advisor to the Canadian Delegate to the UN General Assembly in 1950 and in New York, 1952.

He remained a Member of Parliament for Peel until his death in 1953.

==External links==
* [http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=103256&lang=eng Gordon Graydon fonds – Library and Archives Canada]  
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