James D. Graham

[2] Graham followed in his father's footsteps during his early American years, taking a job with the Northern Pacific himself as an apprentice machinist.

[8] Graham again appeared on the ballot in the Livingston city election of 1905, heading the local ticket as the Socialist candidate for mayor.

[10] From November of that year Graham served as business manager of this publication, which was edited his friend and professional state party organizer Ida Crouch-Hazlett.

[2] Graham would remain a committed socialist throughout his entire life despite feeling he could no longer lend his support to the SPA as an organization.

[2] As head of the MFL, Graham would be instrumental in helping to organize the copper miners of Butte, a multi-year effort that finally gained success in 1933 and 1934.

[3] During the years of the Great Depression, Graham served a six-year stint beginning in 1934 as associate director of the Montana employment service.

[2] Graham was a lifelong anti-Communist who in his final years was a public advocate of the expulsion of the Soviet Union from the United Nations to end its veto power over that organization's military peacekeeping efforts.