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| Name | George Gray |
| Address | 14th and Market Streets
Wilmington, Delaware , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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May 04, 1840
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| Died | August 07, 1925
(85 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
Feb 15, 2025 06:22pm |
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| Info | GRAY, George, a Senator from Delaware; born in New Castle, New Castle County, Del., May 4, 1840; attended the common schools and graduated from Princeton University in 1859; studied law with his father and attended Harvard Law School; admitted to the bar in 1863 and commenced practice in New Castle
Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876, 1880 (when he placed Thomas F. Bayard in nomination for president)
Attorney general of Delaware 1879-1885, when he resigned, having been elected Senator
US Senate (D-DE) 1885-1899. Elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas F. Bayard; reelected in 1887 and 1893; chairman, Committee on Patents (Fifty-third Congress), Committee on Privileges and Elections (Fifty-third Congress), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Fifty-fifth Congress); member of the Joint High Commission which met in Quebec in August 1898 to settle differences between the United States and Canada; member of the commission to arrange terms of peace between the United States and Spain 1898
Associate justice of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the third circuit, appointed by President William McKinley 1899-1914.
Member of several commissions established to arbitrate various international disputes; appointed by President McKinley to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague in 1900; reappointed in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt, in 1912 by President William Taft, and in 1920 by President Woodrow Wilson; American envoy to the North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration Court at The Hague 1910
Chairman of the commission to investigate conditions of the coal strike in Pennsylvania 1902 and then in Alabama in 1905
Member, Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1890-1925; vice president and trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; died in Wilmington, Del., August 7, 1925; interment in Presbyterian Cemetery, New Castle, Del.
[Link] ; Wilmington Morning News, 8/8/1925 |
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