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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyEdward Winthrop GRAY
(1870-1942)
GRAY, Edward Winthrop, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Jersey City, N.J., August
18, 1870; attended the public schools; newspaper reporter in New
York City 1894-1896; owner and publisher of the Summit (N.J.)
Herald in 1897 and 1898; city editor and managing editor of the
Newark Daily Advertiser 1898-1902; president and general manager of
the Newark Daily Advertising Publishing Co. 1902-1904; secretary to
Gov. Edward C. Stokes 1904-1907; appointed by Governor Murphy a
commissioner to investigate tenement-house conditions in 1902;
member of the board of tenement-house supervision 1900-1908;
secretary of the Republican State committee 1908-1913; organized
the Commercial Casualty Insurance Co., Newark, N.J., in 1909;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth
Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate
for election in 1918 to the United States Senate; unsuccessful
candidate for nomination for Representative in 1924 and for Senator
in 1928; writer, publisher, and lecturer; died in Newark, N.J.,
June 10, 1942; interment in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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