Edmund Harry Gray (5 September 1878 – 9 June 1964) was an Australian trade unionist and politician who was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1923 to 1952, representing West Province.
He moved the following year to Broken Hill, New South Wales, initially working in a timbermill and then opening a bakery and catering business.
[2] Having become prominent in the labour movement in Fremantle, Gray was elected to parliament at a 1923 Legislative Council by-election for West Province, necessitated by the resignation of Frederick Baglin.
They were alleged to have issued a pamphlet that contained defamatory statements about Thomas Hughes, a Nationalist candidate who unsuccessfully opposed Labor's Gilbert Fraser in West Province.
[4] This conviction should have automatically disqualified Gray from sitting in parliament, but the Legislative Council made no moves to expel him and the Labor government arranged for him to be pardoned by the lieutenant-governor, Sir James Mitchell.