[2] Gary ran as the Republican candidate for Maryland Governor in the 1879 election, losing to William Thomas Hamilton.

[3] He served as the Postmaster General from March 5, 1897, to his resignation due to illness on April 21, 1898.

They had ten children, including E. Stanley, Mrs. Robert C. Taylor, Mrs. Henry Pratt Janes, Mrs. Harold Randolph, Mrs. Eugene Levering Jr., Mrs. Francis E. Pegram, Mrs. Van Lear Black and Mrs. Andrew H. Whitridge.

[7] Gary had a home in the Mount Vernon section of Baltimore and a summer place in Catonsville.

[citation needed] Gary died on October 31, 1920, at his home at Linden Avenue and Dolphin Street in Baltimore.