[1][2] He was appointed Secretary of the Kentucky Labor Cabinet in 2008, by governor Steve Beshear and served until his retirement in November 2010.
[5] In 1988 Lewis ran for the house again and defeated Gray in the May primary election.
[7] Gray completed his journeyman apprenticeship at Youngtown Sheet & Tube in Gary, Indiana.
After a few years working at B. F. Goodrich, where he served as a steward & as the Directing Business Agent of the Machinist & Aerospace Workers “IAM,” District Lodge 154 Calvert City for twenty years.
[8] Gray and his wife Yvonne lived in Benton from 1963 until the time of his death.