Rachel Gray Explained
Rachel Gillean Gray (September 26, 1930 – January 19, 2010) was an American politician.
Life and career
Gray was affiliated with the Democratic Party from her time as a member of the city council of High Point, North Carolina.[1] [2] [3] As a city councilor, she served as liaison to the High Point Human Relations Commission,[4] and as mayor pro-term.[5] [6] Gray began serving as a state legislator in 1977.[7] In her tenure in the North Carolina Senate, during which she represented Guilford County, Gray supported the Equal Rights Amendment.[8] However, Gray protested the lack of legislative process afforded to discussions on its ratification.[9] She lost reelection to Wendell Sawyer during the 1984 state legislative elections.[10] The next year, Gray considered running for the United States Senate, telling The Dispatch, a newspaper that previously reported speculation that she would not run served as "ice thrown on my candidacy."[11] Gray died on January 19, 2010, at the age of 79.[12]
Notes and References
- News: Councilmen . 27 April 2022 . High Point Enterprise . 21 March 1974.
- News: Austin . Mark . Tardy judge delays swearing-in ceremony . 27 April 2022 . High Point Enterprise . 4 December 1975.
- News: City council . 27 April 2022 . High Point Enterprise . 13 October 1975.
- News: Hubbard . Ray . Hatchet may drop on High Point HRC . 27 April 2022 . High Point Enterprise . 8 June 1975.
- News: Lowe . John . Elsie Borden receives key to city during four-day tour . 27 April 2022 . High Point Enterprise . 7 October 1976.
- News: Mrs. Chambers receives honor . 27 April 2022 . High Point Enterprise . 3 October 1976.
- News: Shinkle . Kathy . Women legislators facing a double bind . 27 April 2022 . North Carolina Insight . 1980.
- News: Mrs. Gatsis: a little balance . 27 April 2022 . 25 November 1982.
- Book: Mathews . Donald G. . De Hart . Jane S. . Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA: A State and the Nation . 1992 . Oxford University Press . 9780195360103 . 109 . Senator Rachel Gray, a Democrat who had nothing in common with Pegg, raged at women's having been completely bypassed by the "gentlemen" in a short-circuiting of the legislative process..
- News: The GOP will shine once more . 27 April 2022 . Asheville Citizen-Times . 10 October 1984.
- News: Keep North Carolina beautiful lives . 27 April 2022 . The Dispatch . 25 October 1985.
- Web site: Rachel G. Gray . Legacy . 21 November 2023.