Gordon Gray (politician)
| Gordon Gray | |
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| National Security Advisor | |
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In office June 24, 1958 – January 13, 1961 |
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| President | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | Robert Cutler |
| Succeeded by | Mac Bundy |
| Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization | |
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In office March 14, 1957 – June 24, 1958 |
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| President | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | Arthur Flemming |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs | |
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In office July 14, 1955 – February 27, 1957 |
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| President | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | Struve Hensel |
| Succeeded by | Mansfield Sprague |
| President of the University of North Carolina System | |
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In office October 12, 1950 – June 10, 1955 |
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| Preceded by | Frank Graham |
| Succeeded by | Bill Friday |
| United States Secretary of the Army | |
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In office April 28, 1949 – April 12, 1950 |
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| President | Harry Truman |
| Preceded by | Kenneth Royall |
| Succeeded by | Frank Pace |
| Personal details | |
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May 30, 1909 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | November 26, 1982 (aged 73) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Jane Boyden Craige Nancy Maguire Beebe |
| Children | 4 (including Burton and Boyden) |
| Education |
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA) Yale University (LLB) |
Gordon Gray (May 30, 1909 – November 26, 1982) was an official in the government of the United States during the administrations of Harry Truman (1945–53) and Dwight Eisenhower (1953–61) associated with defense and national security.
Gordon Gray was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Bowman Gray, Sr. and Nathalie Lyons Gray. He was married in 1938 to the former Jane Boyden Craige, and they had four sons: Gordon Gray, Jr., Burton C. Gray, C. Boyden Gray and Bernard Gray. After Jane's death, Gray married the former Nancy Maguire Beebe. His father Bowman, his uncle James A. Gray, Jr. and later his brother, Bowman Gray, Jr., were all heads of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
His son, C. Boyden Gray, a graduate of Harvard and the University of North Carolina Law School, served as White House counsel for President George Herbert Walker Bush. His nephew, Lyons Gray, also a graduate of both North Carolina and Yale, is chief financial officer for the Environmental Protection Agency
Gordon Gray attended Woodberry Forest School for high school. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1930, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Beta chapter) & the secretive, Order of Gimghoul. He earned his law degree from Yale Law School in 1933 and practiced law for two years in New York City before returning to Winston-Salem. UNC presented Gray with an honorary law degree in 1949.
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