Alfred Gray (Kansas politician)
Alfred Gray (December 5, 1830 – January 23, 1880) was an American politician from Kansas. He served as a state legislator and as Secretary of the state Board of Agriculture.[1]
Gray was born to English parents in Evans, New York. His father died when he was 14, after which he worked to support his mother; after his mother died when he was 19, he enrolled in law school. He attended Albany Law School, earning a degree in 1855, and then entering law practice.[1]
In 1857, however, he moved to Quindaro, Kansas, and took up farming. He was soon elected to the Kansas Legislature and served for a time. During the Civil War he served in the Union Army, and returning to Kansas politics, held a series of high-profile agricultural posts. He was a director in the from 1866 until it was merged into the . He later sold his farm and moved to Topeka to serve as Secretary of the Board of Agriculture from 1873 until his death from tuberculosis in 1880.[1][2][3]
Gray County, Kansas is named after him.[2]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Linus P. Brockett (1882). Our Western Empire. W. Garretson & co. pp. 886–887.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Henry Gannett (1905). "Gray". The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 142.
- ^ Blackmar, Frank Wilson (1912). Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. Standard Publishing Company. pp. 782.
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