Sir Charles Graham Waddell (7 January 1877 – 7 April 1960) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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to bank manager Colonel George Walker Waddell and Fanny Elizabeth Sharpe. He attended

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and worked as a bookkeeper and overseer near

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before becoming a grazier at Bethungra. He was president of the Graziers' Association from 1925 to 1928 and chairman of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council from 1925 to 1935. In 1927 he was

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. In 1936 he was elected to a 12 year term as a Country Party member of the

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, serving from 1937 until 1949. Waddell died at

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in 1960 (aged ). His uncle

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was also a member of Legislative Assembly and briefly

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, and his cousin John Waddell was the member for Waverley in the Legislative Assembly from 1932 until 1939.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Waddell, Graham 1877 births 1960 deaths National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council Australian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire People from Orange, New South Wales Australian farmers People educated at Sydney Grammar School