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J. R. Gray
J. R. Gray (July 17, 1938 – May 11, 2022) was an American politician in the state of Kentucky. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives as a Democrat from 1976 to 1989 and from 1995 to 2007.[1][2] He was appointed Secretary of the Kentucky Labor Cabinet in 2008, by governor Steve Beshear and served until his retirement in November 2010.[3][4] Gray was first elected to the house in 1975 after incumbent Richard Lewis resigned from the house in order to join the executive staff of governor Julian Carroll.[5] In 1988 Lewis ran for the house again and defeated Gray in the May primary election.[6] Gray won election to the house again in 1994 after Lewis did not run for reelection.[7] Gray completed his journeyman apprenticeship at Youngtown Sheet & Tube in Gary, Indiana. He was employed at the Calvert City B. F. Goodrich. After a few years working at B. F. Goodrich, where he served as a steward & as the Directing Business Agent of the Machinist & Aerospace Workers “IAM,” District Lodge 154 Calvert City for twenty years.[8] Gray and his wife Yvonne lived in Benton from 1963 until the time of his death. They had two children, Randy and Teresa.[9] References
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