Clayland Gray, an American lawyer and diplomat, was born on February 6, 1943, and died on May 21, 2023. He held the positions of White House Counsel from 1989 to 1993 and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union from 2006 to 2007. He was a founding member of the law firm Boyden Gray & Associates LLP, which has its headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Gray worked as Chief Justice Earl Warren’s law clerk after graduating. He began working with Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, now Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, in 1968 and was made a partner in 1976. Gray, a former Democrat, changed parties by the end of the 1970s because he didn’t like Jimmy Carter as president. He served on the boards of directors for The European Institute, America Abroad Media, FreedomWorks, and the Atlantic Council.
C. Boyden Gray parents: Meet Gordon Gray
North Carolina’s Winston-Salem is where Gray was born in 1943. Under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gordon Gray, a lawyer, was the nation’s national security adviser. Bowman Gray Sr., Gray’s grandfather, served as the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company’s president.
In Southborough, Massachusetts, Gray attended St. Mark’s School as well as Fay School. In 1964, he earned a magna cum laude degree from Harvard University and began contributing to The Harvard Crimson. From 1965 to 1970, he also worked as a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps Reserve.