Peter W. Gray:
Born: December 12, 1819
Birthplace: Fredericksburg Virginia
Father: Lt. Colonel William Fairfax Gray 1787 – 1841
(Buried: Glenwood Cemetery Houston Texas)
Mother: Milly Richards Stone 1800 – 1851
(Buried: Glenwood Cemetery Houston Texas)
Wife: Jane Avery 1820 – 1894
(Buried: Glenwood Cemetery Houston Texas)
Political Party: Democratic Party
Occupation before War:
Served in the Texas Army
1841 – 1845: District Attorney in Houston Texas
Alderman for the City of Houston Texas
Member of Houston Texas local board of Health
1848: Founder of Houston Lyceum
Texas State Representative from Harris County Texas
1854 – 1856: Texas State Senator
1856 – 1861: Judge of Texas State District Court
Civil War Career:
1861: Harris County Delegate to Texas State Secession Convention
1862 – 1864: Confederate States Congressman from Texas
1863 – 1864: Member of House Currency Committee
He was the most vigilant guardian of Texas's economic interests.
He secured a separate branch of the Treasury Department for Trans Mississippi region.
Gray labor unsuccessfully to rely more heavily on export duties.
He proposed that the ban on cotton exports not apply to shipments into Mexico.
Gray also took a leading role in writing sequestration laws.
He was known as a nationalist on other congressional matters.
1862: He suggested that the Confederacy take absolute control over all railroads.
1863: It was his support of conscription and overseer exemption from military service that cost him reelection to congress.
1864 – 1865: Fiscal agent for the Confederate Trans Mississippi Department.
Occupation after War:
1865 – 1874: Attorney in Houston Texas
1865 – 1874: Suffered from the effects of Tuberculosis
1874: Justice of Texas State Supreme Court serving only two months
Died: October 3, 1874
Place of Death: Houston Texas
Cause of Death: Tuberculosis
Age at time of Death: 54 years old
Burial Place: Glenwood Cemetery Houston Texas
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