Horace Gray

Horace Gray

Horace Gray (* 24. March 1828 in Boston , Massachusetts ; † 15. September 1902 in Nahant , Massachusetts) was an American lawyer , the 1882-1902 Judge at the Supreme Court of the United States ( US Supreme Court was).

Life

The son of an industrialist began after the school in 1845 to study at the Law School of Harvard University and received after graduation in 1851, the attorney approval in Massachusetts. He then worked as an attorney in the law firm Sohier & Welch, before he was then from 1854 to 1861 as a rapporteur at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court . In 1864 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, whose President ( Chief Justice ) he was between September 5, 1873 and January 9, 1882. In 1866 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

On January 9, 1882, he was appointed by US President Chester A. Arthur to succeed Nathan Clifford as an associate judge at the United States Supreme Court , and was a member of this for more than twenty years until his death from a stroke .

On June 4, 1889, he married the daughter of Stanley Matthews , who was also a judge on the US Supreme Court. During his judicial activity in 1896 he worked on the decision in the Plessy v. Ferguson , which allows state segregation as long as facilities for blacks and whites are comparable. This decision was only made sixty years later by the decision in the Brown v. Board of Education repealed May 17, 1954. Other known trials while serving on the US Supreme Court included courage. Life Ins. Co. of NY v. Hillmon (1892), Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895) and United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898).

Horace Gray, who was also involved in the American Antiquarian Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society, was buried after his death in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge . Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was succeeded as associate judge .

Publications

• A legal review of the case of Dred Scott, as decided by the Supreme Court of the United States , 1857
• The abolition of slavery in Massachusetts , 1874

Web links

• Horace Gray in the nndb (English)

• Horace Gray in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Publications (openlibrary.org)