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John Thomas "Tom" Graves, Jr. (born February 3, 1970) is the Cook Partisan Voting Index, it was the third-most Republican district in the nation and the most Republican district in the Eastern Time Zone. Graves' current district is ranked by Cook as the eighth-most Republican district in the nation and the second-most Republican district in Georgia.
Graves was born in Dalton.
After redistricting, incumbent Democrat Tom E. Shanahan of Georgia's 10th House District decided to retire. Graves won the open seat with 60% of the vote.[2] After mid-decade redistricting, Graves decided to run for Georgia's 12th House District, vacated by Republican Jeff Lewis who decided to run in the 15th District. Graves won unopposed in 2004.[3] He won re-election unopposed in 2006[4] and 2008.[5]
American Legislative Exchange Council honored Graves as the 2009 Entrepreneurial Legislator of the Year. In 2009, he was endorsed by the Atlanta Tea Party Patriots.[6]
As State Representative Graves served on the Transportation, Ways and Means and Health and Human Services committee, and as Vice Chairman of the Motor Vehicles committee.
Graves finished first in the special election held on May 11, 2010 after State Senator Lee Hawkins.[7]
Graves faced Hawkins again in the July 20, 2010 Republican primary for the November general election. He came in first but fell short of the requisite 50% plus one majority in order to avoid a runoff and would once again face Hawkins in the primary runoff. This was the fourth time Graves faced Hawkins as an opponent in both the special and general primaries along with their respective runoffs. The 9th district is so heavily Republican that whoever won the runoff was all but assured of winning a full term. Graves won the primary runoff on August 10, 2010. He won the November 2, 2010 general election unopposed.
After redistricting, Graves' home in Ranger was drawn into the newly created 14th district, which is basically the northwestern portion of the old 9th. Graves opted to run in the 14th[8] This district, like his old one, is heavily Republican, and Graves easily defeated a nominal Democratic challenger with 73 percent of the vote.
Graves is pro-life and has voted to limit abortion. He also supports ending all federal funding for Planned Parenthood.[9] Graves is against a pathway to citizenship for immigrants in the United States illegally.[10] He is against withdrawing troops from Afghanistan.[11]
In 2009 Graves signed a pledge sponsored by Americans for Prosperity promising to vote against any Global Warming legislation that would raise taxes.[12]
Graves and his wife Julie have three children and are active members of Belmont Baptist Church in Calhoun, Georgia.
In 2011, Graves and a business partner (state Senate Majority Leader [15] Furthermore, although Graves and Rogers claimed the new owner of the company only defaulted on the loan because the bank reneged on a promise to refinance, the bank countered that the loan was in default before the sale of their company and they invalidated their refinancing deal because they sold the company without informing the bank. In August 2011, the bank's dispute with Graves was settled out of court and no details of the settlement were disclosed.[16][17] Due to unpaid property taxes going back to 2009, the city may have to seize the property and spend over $100,000 to secure and eventually demolish it.[18]
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