Benjamin C. Gray

Benjamin C. Gray
 			
3rd Secretary of Infrastructure 			
Term: March 4, 1821 - July 27, 1822 			
Preceded by: Philip Jeremiah Schuyler 			
Succeeded By: N/A 			
Representative From North Carolina 			
Term: March 4, 1819 - December 2, 1824			
Preceded By: Charles Fisher 			
Succeeded By: N/A 			
Personal Details 			
Born: July 4th, 1793 			
Death: December 2, 1824 			
State: North Carolina 			
Party: Patriot 			
Spouse: Anna Gray 			
Children: Maria Gray / Andrew Gray II 			
Family: Gray Family 			
Benjamin Gray, was a politician and judge in the early 1800's in North Carolina. He was a representative and had a positions in President James Monroe's cabinet.
==Representative==
Benjamin Gray became the Patriot Chairman and decided to run for a political position after being old enough to run he decided to run for North Carolina congress which he won. He tried to run for speakership but lost to Henry Clay, he himself did not propose anything but he helped in making acts like the Civil War Reparation Act and the Africans back to Africa act. 
==Secretary of Infrastructure==
After helping the Democratic party in the 1820 presidential election he got into the cabinet as Secretary of infrastructure but did not do much, but after Clinton was taken out of office he would be kicked out of the cabinet and replaced.
== Death ==
Benjamin Gray would die during a duel against Thomas Duncan, the man who he hired as a writer only months before. Duncan thought that Gray personally worked with the democrats to not put up patriot senate candidates leading to states getting no patriot candidates. He would challenge Gray to a duel and Gray would loose leading to his death. The party shortly collapsed after his death.
==Personal Life==
Gray was borned on a North Carolina plantation where his family lived, where he would live. After his relative died, William Gray he and his father inherited all of William Gray's belongings due to them being the closest relatives, Benjamin would also get the Patriot Chairman position. He would marry his wife Anna Gray in 1819 and would have his first child Maria Gray in 1820 and a year following his second child Andrew Gray II named after his father.