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William Heward Grafftey PC QC (August 5, 1928 – February 11, 2010) was a Canadian politician and businessman.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, to a wealthy family, he was a nephew of artist Prudence Heward of the Beaver Hall Group, and wrote a chapter about her in the 1996 book Portraits of a Life.
His father, Major Arthur Grafftey, was a First World War hero and board chairman of the Montreal Lumber Company.
Grafftey received a bachelor of arts degree from Mount Allison University, majoring in political science and history, and a bachelor of civil law degree from McGill University. He was admitted to the Bar of Quebec.
Grafftey was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1958 general election that returned John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative (PC) Party in a landslide victory. A resident of the Eastern Townships, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Brome—Missisquoi from 1958 to 1968. From 1962 to 1963, Grafftey served as parliamentary secretary to Finance Minister George Nowlan. Due to his relatively short stature and impish looks, Grafftey earned the nickname of "The Gnome from Brome," during his twenty years in politics.
In the 1964 Great Flag Debate, he was one of a handful of Conservative MPs—a group led by his fellow Quebecer Léon Balcer—who broke with leader John Diefenbaker to support the adoption of the Maple Leaf flag. Grafftey sat as a Tory MP until losing his seat when the Liberal Party under Pierre Trudeau won the 1968 election in a landslide. During this period, he called for radical reforms to Canada's housing policies.
Grafftey returned to Parliament in the 1972 election, and was a candidate in the 1976 Progressive Conservative leadership election, in which he placed last on the first ballot, with 33 delegate votes. Like many of the other challengers in the race who were eliminated in the early ballots, Grafftey supported the eventual leadership winner, Joe Clark.
Clark became Prime Minister after winning a minority government in 1979, and Grafftey served as Minister of State for Social Programs and Minister of State for Science and Technology in Clark's short-lived government before losing his seat again in the 1980 election. Grafftey supported Clark in the 1983 PC leadership election, in which the latter lost to Brian Mulroney, and was largely shut out of Quebec PC circles during the Mulroney years.
Heward Grafftey
William Heward Grafftey PC QC (August 5, 1928 – February 11, 2010) was a Canadian politician and businessman.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, to a wealthy family, he was a nephew of artist Prudence Heward of the Beaver Hall Group, and wrote a chapter about her in the 1996 book Portraits of a Life.
His father, Major Arthur Grafftey, was a First World War hero and board chairman of the Montreal Lumber Company.
Grafftey received a bachelor of arts degree from Mount Allison University, majoring in political science and history, and a bachelor of civil law degree from McGill University. He was admitted to the Bar of Quebec.
Grafftey was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1958 general election that returned John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative (PC) Party in a landslide victory. A resident of the Eastern Townships, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Brome—Missisquoi from 1958 to 1968. From 1962 to 1963, Grafftey served as parliamentary secretary to Finance Minister George Nowlan. Due to his relatively short stature and impish looks, Grafftey earned the nickname of "The Gnome from Brome," during his twenty years in politics.
In the 1964 Great Flag Debate, he was one of a handful of Conservative MPs—a group led by his fellow Quebecer Léon Balcer—who broke with leader John Diefenbaker to support the adoption of the Maple Leaf flag. Grafftey sat as a Tory MP until losing his seat when the Liberal Party under Pierre Trudeau won the 1968 election in a landslide. During this period, he called for radical reforms to Canada's housing policies.
Grafftey returned to Parliament in the 1972 election, and was a candidate in the 1976 Progressive Conservative leadership election, in which he placed last on the first ballot, with 33 delegate votes. Like many of the other challengers in the race who were eliminated in the early ballots, Grafftey supported the eventual leadership winner, Joe Clark.
Clark became Prime Minister after winning a minority government in 1979, and Grafftey served as Minister of State for Social Programs and Minister of State for Science and Technology in Clark's short-lived government before losing his seat again in the 1980 election. Grafftey supported Clark in the 1983 PC leadership election, in which the latter lost to Brian Mulroney, and was largely shut out of Quebec PC circles during the Mulroney years.