"Chet" Wray (May 26, 1923 – December 28, 2005) was a Democratic politician who represented Orange County in the California State Assembly from 1976 to 1982.
Before moving his wife, Mary, and their four children to California in 1954, he took classes at the University of Arkansas and later attended UCLA, where he studied political science.
He and his family later moved to California, where he became the president of the United Auto Workers union.
Running as a Democrat in predominantly Republican Orange County, Wray won by 38 votes.
After losing his bid for a third assembly term to Republican businesswoman Doris Allen, Wray was appointed to the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board in 1982 in Sacramento, by then Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr..