Peter W. Gray

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Peter W. Gray (born December 12, 1819 in Fredericksburg , Virginia ; October 3, 1874 in Houston , Texas ) was an American lawyer and politician .

Career

Peter W. Gray, son of Milly Richards Stone and William Fairfax Gray (1787–1841), was born about four and a half years after the end of the British-American War in the independent city of Fredericksburg. During the Depression , the family moved to Texas in 1838 and settled in Houston. Peter W. Gray studied with his father Jura and practiced after receiving his license to practice law. After his father's death, he was named Houston District Attorney on April 24, 1841 - a post he held until 1845 when Texas became a state. In 1846 he was elected to the first Texas House of Representatives. In the same year the Mexican-American War broke out. In 1848 he founded the Houston Lyceum, which later became the Houston Public Library . He sat in the Texas Senate in 1854 . Between 1856 and 1861 he was a judge on the State District Court. In 1861 he participated as a delegate to the Texas Secession Convention, where he voted for his state's secession. In November 1861 he was elected to the First Confederate Congress for the Third Constituency of Texas , where he served from February 18, 1862 to February 17, 1864. After the end of the Civil War , he resumed his practice in Houston as a lawyer in his law firm Gray, Botts & Baker . When he was appointed associate judge on the Texas Supreme Court in 1874 , he gave up his practice. After a few months in office, however, he had to resign because of his poor health. Gray died of tuberculosis in his Houston home and was buried in Glenwood Cemetery , Houston. He was an active episcopal and a freemason .

Honors

The Gray County in Texas was named after him in honor.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Confederate States almanac and repository of useful knowledge: for the year 1863 , Gale Cengage Learning, ISBN 9781432804930 , p. 33
  2. ↑ First Confederate Congress - Peter W. Gray ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.csawardept.com
  3. ^ Gannett, Henry: The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States , US Government Printing Office, 1905, 142

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personal data
SURNAME Gray, Peter W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Fredericksburg , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1874
Place of death Houston , Texas