Robert Andrew Gray

Robert Andrew Gray was born in Georgia in 1882 to a Methodist preacher and his wife.

[1] Later that same year, Gray married "Grace Mullins, the daughter of a local Baptist minister".

[2] After a brief period in education and the newspaper industry, Gray ran for the Gadsden County seat in the Florida House of Representatives in 1910 and won.

[1] In 1930, Florida Governor Doyle Carlton appointed Gray Secretary of State, a position he would hold for the next 31 years through several gubernatorial administrations.

[3] In office, Gray was remembered as being fiscally conservative and deeply committed to public service.