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HORACE GRAY
was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 24, 1828.
He enrolled in Harvard College at the age of thirteen
and was graduated four years later. After traveling abroad,
he received his law degree at Harvard in 1849. Gray was
admitted to the bar in 1851 and practice law for the next
thirteen years. In 1854, he began his judicial career
as a reporter for the State Supreme Court. During his
tenure, Gray edited sixteen volumes of court records which,
with some independent legal writing, earned him a reputation
for historical scholarship and legal research. While working
as a court reporter, Gray also served as a counselor to
the Governor of Massachusetts on legal and constitutional
questions and, in particular, issues arising from the
Civil War. Gray was appointed to the State Supreme Court
as an Associate Justice in 1864, the youngest appointee
in the history of the Court. He was elevated to Chief
Justice nine years later. President Chester A. Arthur
nominated Gray to the Supreme Court of the United States
on December 19, 1881, and the Senate confirmed the appointment
the following day. Gray served on the Supreme Court for
twenty years. He submitted his resignation non July 9,
1902, to become effective on the appointment of his successor.
Gray died on September 15, 1902, at the age of seventy-four. |
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