Robert R. Gray (born ) was a teacher and state legislator in North Carolina.
[Justesen, Benjamin R. “]
The Class of '83’: Black Watershed in the North Carolina General Assembly
” ''The North Carolina Historical Review'' 86, no. 3 (2009): 282–308. via JSTOR, accessed January 8, 2023. He served in the North Carolina House and Senate. He attended
Saint Augustine College in
Raleigh.
In 1883 when he was 28 years old, he represented
Edgecombe County
Edgecombe County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,900. Its county seat is Tarboro.
Edgecombe County is part of the Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Metropolitan Statistical Area ...
in the North Carolina Senate.
He was African American.
He lived in
Tarboro, North Carolina.
See also
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African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era
References
Year of death missing
African-American state legislators in North Carolina
People from Edgecombe County, North Carolina
19th-century African-American politicians
Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives
North Carolina state senators
Schoolteachers from North Carolina
African-American schoolteachers
St. Augustine's University (North Carolina) alumni
19th-century African-American educators
19th-century American legislators
19th-century American educators
Year of birth uncertain
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