HORACE

See also:

• GRAY
• GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
• GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
• GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
• GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
• GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
• HORACE GRAY (1828–1902)
• GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
• GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
• GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
• GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
• GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
• GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)

GRAY (1828–1902)  , American jurist, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 24th of March 1828 . He graduated at Harvard in 1845; was admitted to the bar in 1851, and in 1854–1861 was reporter to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts . He practised law, first in partnership with Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, and later with Wilder Dwight (1823–1862) and Charles F .. Blake; was appointed associate justice of the state Supreme Court on the 23rd of August 1864, becoming chief-justice on the 5th of September 1873; and was associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from December 1881 to August 1902, resigning only a few weeks before his death at Nahant, Mass., on the 15th of- September 1902 . Gray had a fine sense of the dignity of the bench, and a taste for historical study . His judgments were unmistakably clear and contained the essence of earlier opinions . A great case lawyer, he was a much greater judge, the variety of his knowledge and his contributions to admiralty and prize law and to testamentary law being particularly striking; in constitutional law he was a " loose " rather than a " strict " constructionist . See Francis C . Lowell, " Horace Gray," in Proceedings of the American Academy, vol . 39, pp . 627-637 (Boston, 1904) .