Horace Gray

Horace Gray ( born March 24, 1828 in Boston, Massachusetts, † September 15, 1902 in Nahant, Massachusetts ) was an American lawyer, 1882-1902 Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States (U.S. Supreme Court ) was.

Life

The son of an industrialist began after the school in 1845 to study at the Law School of Harvard University and, after graduating in 1851, the attorney admission in Massachusetts. He then worked as an attorney at the law firm Sohier & Welch, before 1854-1861 rapporteur on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ) then worked. 1864 he was appointed a judge to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, the President ( Chief Justice ), he was finally between September 5, 1873 and 9 January 1882.

On January 9, 1882, he was appointed by U.S. President Chester A. Arthur as the successor of Nathan Clifford for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and this was up to his death from a stroke more than twenty years on.

On June 4, 1889 he married the daughter of Thomas Stanley Matthews, who was also a judge on the U.S. Supreme Court. During his career, he appeared in 1896 judges with the decision in the Plessy v. Ferguson, according to the racial segregation is allowed by the states, as long as the facilities for blacks and whites are comparable. This decision was not until almost sixty years later canceled by the decision in the Brown v. Board of Education of 17 May 1954. Other known methods during his affiliation with the U.S. Supreme Court had courage. Life Ins. Co. of N. Y. v. Hillmon (1892 ), Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895 ) and United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898 ).

Horace Gray, who was also involved in the American Antiquarian Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society, was buried after his death at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. Successor as Assistant Judge, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr..

Publications

  • A legal review of the case of Dred Scott, as DECIDED by the Supreme Court of the United States, 1857
  • The abolition of slavery in Massachusetts, 1874
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