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Mark Graves was appointed state tax commissioner by Governor Smith on February 21, 1923; he was reappointed on January 26, 1925 for a term ending December 31, 1931. He resigned from the Tax Commission on September 9, 1931 to become budget director for Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. He filled that office until 1933, when Governor Lehman appointed him commissioner of Taxation and Finance and president of the State Tax Commission. He was reappointed in 1935 and again in 1939.