Background
Gray, Lewis Cecil was born on December 2, 1881 in Liberty, Missouri, United States. Son of Lewis Pressley and Elizabeth (Chambliss) Gray.
Gray, Lewis Cecil was born on December 2, 1881 in Liberty, Missouri, United States. Son of Lewis Pressley and Elizabeth (Chambliss) Gray.
Bachelor of Arts, William Jewell College, Liberty, 1900, Master of Arts, 1903. Student University of Chicago, summers, 1907-1908. Doctor of Philisophy, University of Wisconsin, 1911.
Doctor of Laws, William Jewell College, 1927.
Professor history and economics, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanics College, 1905-1908; instructor economics, University of Wisconsin, 1910-1913. Professor economics, University of Saskatchewan, 1913-1915.
Professor rural economics, George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee, 1915-1919.
Became economist in charge division of land economics, United States Bureau Agricultural Economics, April 1919, then assistant chief of Bureau. Assistant administrator, Resettlement Adminstration, December 1935.
Later became assistant to secretary of state. Special agent Bureau of Census, 1911.
In charge price fixing division, United States Food Adminstration, State of Tennessee, 1918.
Chairman special commission on land utilization appointed by Secretary of Agriculture. Director of land use section, National Resources Committee. Member President Roosevelt’s Great Plains Committee and executive secretary President's Farm Tenancy Committee.
Member American Economics Association, American Farm Economics Association Represented United States Department of Agriculture at meeting of International Institute Agriculture, Rome, 1922, 28. Club: Cosmos.
Married Pearl B. Patterson, 1905. Children: Mistress Marceline East. Eder, Emily Belle, Lois Cecilia, John Lewis.