Thomas Watt Gregory
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Thomas Watt Gregory (November 6, 1861–February 26, 1933) was an American attorney and Cabinet Secretary.
Born in Crawfordsville, Mississippi, he graduated from Southwestern Presbyterian University in 1883, and was a special student at the University of Virginia in 1884.
He began the practice of law in Austin, Texas, in 1885. For eight years he was a regent of the University of Texas. He declined appointment as assistant attorney general of Texas in 1892, and an appointment to the state bench in 1896.
Gregory was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis and State delegate at large to the Baltimore convention. He was appointed Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General in 1913, in the investigation and proceedings against the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company.
In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson appointed him Attorney General of the United States, and he held that office until 1919. Gregory was a member of Wilson's Second Industrial Conference in 1919 and 1920.
Gregory died in 1933 and is buried in Austin.
External link
- Handbook of Texas Online: Thomas W. Gregory (http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/print/GG/fgr53.html)
| Preceded by: James C. McReynolds | United States Attorney General 1914–1919 | Succeeded by: A. Mitchell Palmer |