Edwin Gray


Edwin Gray was an 18th-century and 19th-century politician and lawyer from Virginia.
Born in Southampton County, Virginia, Gray attended the College of William & Mary and later served in the House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775. He was a member of the Virginia Convention in 1774, 1775 and 1776, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1776, 1779, 1787, 1788 and 1791 and a member of the Virginia State Senate from 1777 to 1779. Gray was elected a Democratic-Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1798, serving from 1799 to 1813. He died in Nansemond County, Virginia.