Hiram Gray

Hiram Gray (born July 10, 1801 in Salem , New York , † May 6, 1890 in Elmira , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1837 and 1839 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Hiram Gray attended the Salem Academy . In 1821 he graduated from Union College in Schenectady . He studied law . In 1823 he was admitted to the bar. He practiced in Elmira between 1825 and 1828. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the congressional elections of 1836 for the 25th Congress , Gray was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 22nd  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Joseph Reynolds and Andrew DeWitt Bruyn on March 4, 1837 , which previously together represented the 22nd district in the US House of Representatives. He retired from the after March 3, 1839 Congress of.

Governor Silas Wright appointed him magistrate and vice chancellor in the Sixth District of New York in 1846 . In 1847 he was elected judge on the New York Supreme Court . He was re-elected in 1851 and held the post until 1860. Between 1870 and 1875 he was Commissioner of Appeals . Then he returned to his practice as a lawyer. He died on May 6, 1890 in Elmira and was then buried in Woodlawn Cemetery .

literature

• The New York Civil List , Franklin Benjamin Hough, Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 351 and 356.

Web links

• Hiram Gray in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Hiram Gray in the database of Find a Grave (English)