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Gordon Gray

Gordon GrayBorn: 30-May-1909
Birthplace: Baltimore, MD
Died: 26-Nov-1982
Location of death: Washington, DC
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Government

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Secretary of the Army, 1949-50

Military service: US Army (WWII infantry 12th Army Group, 1942-45)

Father: Bowman Gray, Sr.
Brother: Bowman Gray, Jr. (head of RJ Reynolds Tobacco, b. 1907, d. 1969)
Wife: Jane Boyden Craige (m. 1938, d. 1953)
Son: Gordon Gray, Jr.
Son: Burton Gray
Son: C. Boyden Gray (activist/diplomat)
Son: Bernard Gray
Wife: Nancy McGuire Beebe (m. 1956)

    University: University of North Carolina (1930)
    Law School: Yale Law School (1933)

    Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1961-77)
    White House National Security Advisor (1958-61)
    US Secretary of the Army (20-Jun-1949 to 12-Apr-1950)
    North Carolina State Senate (1945-47)
    North Carolina State Senate (1939-42)
    Member of the Board of Summit Communications (as Chairman)
    Presidential Medal of Freedom 1961
    Scottish Ancestry
    Jewish Ancestry


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