Louis-Philippe McGraw (born October 26, 1971 in Sainte-Rose,

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) is a lawyer in the

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, Canada. He is a former member of the

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, having served from 1999 to 2003. In 2008 he was appointed Commissioner and Vice-President of the National Parole Board. McGraw studied at the

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, graduating with

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, and

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degrees. He was admitted to the Bar of New Brunswick in 1997 and set up a law practice in Saint-Isidore. Louis-Philippe McGraw began his involvement in politics as a

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and was youth chair of Bernard Richard's unsuccessful bid for the Liberal leadership in 1998. He joined the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick and was elected to the

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to represent the electoral district of Centre-Péninsule. He was defeated in a bid for re-election in 2003 by

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, whom McGraw had defeated in 1999. McGraw was defeated in a third rematch against Landry in the 2006 election. From the 2006 federal election until the provincial campaign later that year, McGraw served as an advisor to federal cabinet minister Greg Thompson.

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