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GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 391 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRAY, See also:HORACE (1828–1902) , See also:American jurist, was See also:born in See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, on the 24th of See also:March 1828. He graduated at Harvard in 1845; was admitted to the See also:bar in 1851, and in 1854–1861 was reporter to the Supreme See also:Court of Massachusetts. He practised See also:law, first in See also:partnership with Ebenezer Rockwood See also:Hoar, and later with Wilder See also:Dwight (1823–1862) and See also:Charles F.. See also:Blake; was appointed See also:associate See also:justice of the See also:state Supreme Court on the 23rd of See also:August 1864, becoming See also:chief-justice on the 5th of See also:September 1873; and was associate justice of the Supreme Court of the See also:United States from See also:December 1881 to August 1902, resigning only a few See also:weeks before his See also:death at Nahant, See also:Mass., on the 15th of- September 1902. Gray had a See also:fine sense of the dignity of the See also:bench, and a See also:taste for See also:historical study. His judgments were unmistakably clear and contained the essence of earlier opinions. A See also:great See also:case lawyer, he was a much greater See also:judge, the variety of his knowledge and his contributions to See also:admiralty and See also:prize law and to testamentary law being particularly striking; in constitutional law he was a " loose " rather than a " strict " constructionist. See See also:Francis C. See also:Lowell, " Horace Gray," in Proceedings of the American See also:Academy, vol. 39, pp. 627-637 (Boston, 1904).

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