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HORACE GRAY


Horace Gray, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born in Boston, Mass., March 24, 1828; was graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1845 and from the Harvard Law School in 1849; was admitted to the bar in 1851; was appointed reporter of the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts in 1854 and held the position until 1861; was appointed associate justice of the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts August 23, 1864, and chief justice of that court September 5, 1873; was commissioned an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by President Arthur December 19, 1881.