James M. Graham
James McMahon Graham[1] (April 14, 1852 – October 23, 1945) was a United States representative from Illinois.He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and attended Valparaiso University; he was a teacher, lawyer in private practice, and in 1885-1886 a member of the Illinois House of Representatives.He was prosecuting attorney for Sangamon County from 1892 to 1896 and a member of the board of education of Springfield, Illinois from 1891 to 1894.Graham was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1915); he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses).In 2010, a memorial plaque was unveiled in his honor at the Iontas Community Resource & Arts Centre in his native Castleblayney in Ireland.