Neely Gray (February 25, 1810 – May 15, 1867) was an American businessman and politician.
Born in what is now
Brooke County, West Virginia, Gray moved to Pennsylvania and worked as a millwright. In 1835, Gray moved to
Platteville,
Michigan Territory
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.
[ ] He served in the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives in 1840 and 1842 as a
Whig. He then served in the first Wisconsin Constitutional Convention of 1846.
After going to California for a brief time,
Gray settled in
Madison, Wisconsin
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, where he had a storage and commission business and later a coal yard. In 1866, he served on the
Dane County, Wisconsin
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Dane County is the ...
Board of Supervisors, but resigned due to ill health. Gray died in Madison, Wisconsin.
[''The Convention of 1846'', Milo Milton Qualife, Wisconsin Historical Society: 1919, Biographical Sketch of Neely Gray, p. 774]
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1810 births
1867 deaths
People from Brooke County, West Virginia
People from Platteville, Wisconsin
Politicians from Madison, Wisconsin
Businesspeople from Madison, Wisconsin
County supervisors in Wisconsin
Members of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature
19th-century American legislators
19th-century American businesspeople
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