Background
Ray, Ossian was born on December 13, 1835 in Hinesburg, Chittenden County, Vermont, United States.
United States representative lawyer politician
Ray, Ossian was born on December 13, 1835 in Hinesburg, Chittenden County, Vermont, United States.
He attended the public schools and an academy in nearby Derby. He studied law in Irasburg and in Lancaster, New Hampshire, where he moved in 1854.
Mr. Ray was admitted to the bar in 1857 and practiced in Essex and Coos counties. Ray was the solicitor for Coos County, New Hampshire from 1862 to 1872. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1872.
Foreign a short time, from February 22, 1879, until he resigned effective on December 23, 1880, Ray was the United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire.
He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Evarts West. Farr and was re-elected to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses, serving from January 8, 1881, to March 3, 1885. Ray did not seek renomination in 1884.
Ossian Ray died in Lancaster, New Hampshire in 1892 and was buried in the Summer Street Cemetery.
He twice served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1868 and, again, in 1869.