John Munford Gregory (July 8, 1804April 9, 1884) was a US

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and

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from 1842 to 1843.

Biography

Gregory was born in Virginia on July 8, 1804, and was a member of the Virginia state House of Delegates from 1831 to 1840. He served as acting

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from 1842 to 1843 and then as a state court judge in Virginia Gregory died on April 9, 1884, and was buried at

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in Richmond, Virginia. One of the enslaved people that Gregory hired, John Dunjee, escaped and became a prominent Baptist preacher. His home at Richmond after 1849, the Benjamin Watkins Leigh House, was listed on the

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in 1969.

References

External links

A Guide to the Executive Papers of Governor John M. Gregory, 1842–1843
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The Library of Virginia
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