Louis E. Graham was born in
New Castle, Pennsylvania, and moved with his parents to
Beaver, Pennsylvania in 1893. He graduated from
Washington and Jefferson College in
Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1901. He served as deputy
sheriff of
Beaver County, Pennsylvania, from 1903 to 1906. He was
district attorney of Beaver County from 1912 to 1924 and deputy
attorney general of Pennsylvania from 1924 to 1927. He served as chief legal adviser of the former sixth Federal prohibition district from 1927 to 1929, and served as
U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania from November 7, 1929, to September 1, 1933. He was special assistant to the
United States Attorney General in the
Pittsburgh vote-fraud cases (1934–1936). Graham was elected as a Republican to the
Seventy-sixth Congress in 1938 and to the seven succeeding Congresses. He was Chairman of the United States Joint Committee on Immigration and Nationality Policy during the
Eighty-third Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1954, defeated by Democrat
Frank M. Clark. ==Sources==