Brady P. Gentry

Brady Preston Gentry (March 25, 1896 – November 9, 1966) was a U.S. Representative from Texas.

[1] He graduated from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, and studied law.

He was admitted to the bar and began practice in Tyler, Texas.

In 1918, Gentry enlisted in the United States Army; he served in Europe and rose to the rank of captain of Infantry.

He was one of the majority of the Texan delegation to decline to sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto opposing the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education.