Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet

James Robert George Graham ( born June 1, 1792 Naworth Castle, Cumberland, England; † October 25, 1861 in Netherby, Cumberland) was a British statesman.

Graham came into Parliament in 1818, inherited the baronetcy of his father in 1824 and 1830 was the first in the Ministry of Earl Grey Lord of the Admiralty, which he reduced as the navy budget by more than £ 1 million. To the realization of the Reform Bill, he acquired great merits, but took his dismissal in 1834, when they tried to do with the state church in Ireland reforms, and went by the Whigs to the party of the Tories.

In September 1841, he was under the Ministry Robert Peel, Secretary of the Interior and was his boss in the fight against the protectionists loyal to the side, but resigned in 1846 at the same time back with Peel., After 1844 by opening the correspondence Giuseppe Mazzini, which the Neapolitan government customer received by the company of the brothers Bandiera, had drawn public anger on himself. Popular wit calls since the secret opening foreign letters to grahamize.

The Whigs by his former waste, the Tories alienated by his defense of free trade, he obtained in 1847 through the influence of the Earl Grey a seat for the city of Ripon, which he represented until 1852. He stood at the head of a kind of middle party between the Whigs and the rigid Tories, the Ministry Derby fought fiercely and was appointed in December 1852 for the first Lord of the Admiralty in the Coalition Ministry Aberdeen Russell.

As such, he developed a great activity during the Crimean War; but public opinion because of the low success of the first campaign was displeased with him, and he was forced to resign in February 1855 before the investigating committee established to John Arthur Roebuck's motion. The seat he offered in 1859 by Henry John Palmerston 's cabinet, he refused; but he still remained a zealous and influential member of the House and took a lively part in the debates of the same. He died on October 25, 1861 at his country estate.

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  • Member of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)
  • Interior Minister (United Kingdom)
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  • Born in 1792
  • Died in 1861
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