Matthew Graham

Matthew Horace Graham (b. 1944) has been the Mayor of Topstad since May 1999. He was elected as a Liberal at the 1999 election, and became a Liberal Democrat in 2004. In May 2006, Graham was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis; since then, his condition has worsened slightly; Graham now only attends council meetings fortnightly, and walks with a cane. Graham is a strong advocate of stem-cell research. In December 2006, he announced he was retiring from politics at the 2007 mayoral election, though he dismissed any talk of his early retirement.