Prior to this he had been an engineer in gold mines in South Dakota and had served for 10 months with the US Army during World War I.
Graham's employer left Florida towards the end of 1931, and he received 7,000 acres (28 km2) of sugarcane fields outside Miami as severance pay.
While Holland was a U.S. senator, he introduced what would become the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution which prohibited poll taxes being required to vote in federal elections.
[8] Apart from his advocacy against the poll tax, Graham attacked the management of horse racetracks and worked to increase pensions for the elderly.
[citation needed] In 1948, Graham sought election to the Dade County Commission, but ended up losing in the primaries.