HARRISON

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)
• GRAY, HORACE (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

See also:

• HARRISON GRAY OTIS (1765-1848)
• OTIS, JAMES (1725–1783)

OTIS (1765-1848)  , American politician, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 8th of October 1765 . He was a nephew of James Otis, and the son of Samuel Allyne Otis (1740–1814), who was a member of the Confederation Congress in 1787-1788 and secretary of the United States Senate from its first session in 1789 until his death . Young Otis graduated from Harvard College in 1783, was admitted to the bar in 1786, and soon became prominent as a Federalist in politics . He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1796-1197, in the National House of Representatives in 1797–1801, as district-attorney for Massachusetts in 18o1, as speaker of the state House of Representatives in 1803–18o5, as a member of the state Senate from 1805 to 1811, and as president of that body in 18o5–18o6 and 18o8–1811, as a member of the United States Senate from 1817 to 1822, and as mayor of Boston in 1829–1832 . He was strongly opposed to the War of 1812, and was a leader in the movement culminating in the Hartford Convention, which he defended in a series of open letters published in 1824, and in his inaugural address as mayor of Boston . A man of refinement and education, a member of an influential family, a popular social leader and an eloquent speaker—at the age of twenty-three he was chosen by the town authorities of Boston to deliver the Independence Day oration—Otis yet lacked conspicuous ability as a statesman . He died in Boston on the 28th of October 1848 .