Horace F. Graham

Horace F. Graham
Governor Horace Graham. Photo by A.W. Elson & Company, Belmont, Massachusetts.
56th Governor of Vermont
In office January 4, 1917 – January 9, 1919
Lieutenant	Roger W. Hulburd
Preceded by	Charles W. Gates
Succeeded by	Percival W. Clement
Member of the Vermont House of Representatives
In office 1892 1900
Personal details
Born	(1862-02-07)February 7, 1862 Brooklyn, New York
Died	November 23, 1941(1941-11-23) (aged 79) Craftsbury, Vermont
Political party	Republican
Profession	Attorney

Horace French Graham (February 7, 1862 – November 23, 1941) was an American politician who served as the 56th Governor of the U.S. state of Vermont from 1917 to 1919.

Graham received his early education in Vermont. He graduated from the College of the City of New York (now New York University) in 1882. He received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1888 and became an attorney in Craftsbury.

Graham was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

A Republican, he served as Craftsbury's Town Meeting Moderator from 1902 to 1932, and in the Vermont House of Representatives in 1892 and 1900. He was Orleans County State's Attorney from 1898 to 1902, and a Republican Presidential elector in 1900. Graham was Vermont's Auditor from 1902 to 1916, and a member of the state Education Commission in 1913.

In 1916 Graham was the successful candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor. In a state where only Republicans won statewide office from the 1850s to the 1960s, he easily won the general election. He served from 1917 to 1919, the one term then available to Vermont Republicans under the "Mountain Rule."

(Under the provisions of the Mountain Rule, one U.S. Senator was a resident of the east side of the Green Mountains and one resided on the west side, and the governorship and lieutenant governorship alternated between residents of the east and west side. For nearly 100 years likely candidates for office in Vermont agreed to abide by the Mountain Rule in the interests of party unity.)