Background
Gay, Thomas Benjamin was born on May 22, 1885 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Son of Thomas Bolling and Mary Radcliffe (Ellett) Gay.
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Thomas Benjamin Gay
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Law student of University Virginia, 1904-1906.
Career
1 son, Thomas Benjamin. Married second, Mary Stuart Pattison, November 25, 1921. Admitted to Virginia bar, 1906, began practice in Richmond.
Member Hunton, Williams, Gay & Gibson, since 1916. Former counsel Southern Railway, State Planters Bank. Counsel Scott Protective Committee of Stockholders of C. & O. Railway which defeated Van Sweringen plan of uniting C. & O. with Nickel Plate, 1924-1925.
Representative New York Stock Exchange before Congressional coms. which drafted National Securities Exchange Act, 1934. Vice president University of Virginia Law School Foundation Board visitors University of Virginia, 1946-1954.
Membership
Member Hunton, Williams, Gay & Gibson, since 1916. Member Bar Association District of Columbia, American (chairman house of deals 1939-1941), Virginia (president 1946-1947), Richmond (president 1936-1937) bar associations, Association Bar City New York, Association Life Insurance Counsel, University of Virginia Law School Association (president 1944-1945), American Law Institute, American Judicature Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Raven Society. Clubs: Cosmos (Washington).
Connections
Married Lenore Temple Skeen, June 10, 1916.; married second, Mary Stuart Pattison, November 25, 1921.
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Religion
Episcopalian