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 GEORGE GRAY

, of Wilmington, was born at New Castle, Del., May 4, 1840; he graduated at Princeton College when nineteen years old, receiving the degree of A. B., and in 1862 the degree of A. M.; in 1889 the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by his alma mater after studying law with his father, Andrew C. Gray, he spent a year in the Harvard Law School and was admitted to practice in 1863; was appointed attorney-general of the State of Delaware in 1879 by Governor Hall and was reappointed in 1884 by Governor Stockley; was a delegate to the national Democratic conventions at St. Louis in 1876, at Cincinnati in 1880, and at Chicago in 1884; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Thomas F. Bayard as Secretary of State; was reëlected in 1887 and in 1893; was a member of the commission which met at Quebec, August, 1898, to settle differences between the United States and Canada, and later of the commission which met at Paris in September, 1898, to arrange terms of peace between the United States and Spain. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.