Ross Gray | |
Birthname: | Ross Wilfred Gray |
Birth Date: | 1897 1, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Moore Township, Ontario |
Spouse: | Gertrude K. Wiley m. 10 October 1925[1] |
Riding: | Lambton West |
Predecessor: | William Thomas Goodison |
Successor: | Joseph Warner Murphy |
Term Start: | January 1929 |
Term End: | June 1945 |
Profession: | barrister |
Party: | Liberal |
Ross Wilfred Gray (5 January 1897 - 11 December 1968) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Moore Township in Lambton County, Ontario and became a barrister by career.
Gray attended Sarnia Collegiate then Osgoode Hall Law School then attended Harvard University for post-graduate studies. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery from 1916 to 1919. From 1924 to 1927, he was a member of the Sarnia Board of Education.
He was first elected to Parliament at the Lambton West riding in a by-election on 14 January 1929 then re-elected there in 1930, 1935 and 1940. Gray was defeated by Joseph Warner Murphy of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1945 election.