Horace Gray ✓

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US Supreme Court justice from 1882 to 1902

About Horace Gray

Horace Gray was an American jurist who served on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and then on the United States Supreme Court, where he frequently interpreted the Constitution in ways that increased the powers of Congress. He was a staunch supporter of the authority of precedent throughout his career, and would write landmark opinions in cases such as Elk v. Wilkins and United States v. Wong Kim Ark.

Notable works:

Catalogue of the valuable law library of the late Hon. Horace Gray, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, comprising English reports ...Irish reports ... Scotch reports ... United States circuit and district court reports ... Canadian and Nova Scotia reports. Abridgments, digests, text books and miscellaneous works, etc. To be sold by auction Tuesday, and Wednesday, March 24th and 25th, 1903 ... C.F.Libbie & Co. - auctioneers and appraisers, Boston, Mass

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