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John Hamilton Gray, QC (1814 – June 5, 1889) was a politician in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada, a jurist, and one of the Fathers of Confederation. He should not be confused with John Hamilton Gray, a Prince Edward Island politician (and also a Father of Confederation) in the same era. As Premier, Gray led the Conservatives to victory in the June 1856 election on an anti-prohibition platform and repealed the liquor law. However, with the central issue uniting his government now resolved he became unable to command a majority in the legislature and resigned in May 1857.

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  • Джон Гамильтон Грей (англ. John Hamilton Gray, 1814, Сент-Джордж, Бермуды — 5 июня 1889, Виктория, Британская Колумбия, Канада) — канадский политический деятель, юрист, судья. Премьер-министр Нью-Брансуика. Является одним из отцов канадской конфедерации — принимал участие в конференциях в Шарлоттауне и Квебеке.
  • John Hamilton Gray (ur. 3 maja 1814, zm. 5 czerwca 1889) – kanadyjski polityk drugiej połowy XIX w., pochodzący z Nowego Brunszwiku. Był uczestnikiem konferencji w Charlottetown i w Québecu. Zaliczany jest do grona Ojców Konfederacji. Rodzina Graya wywodziła się z Nowej Szkocji, lecz on sam urodził się na Bermudach. Studiował prawo na King's College w na Nowej Szkocji. W 1837 rozpoczął praktykę adwokacką w Nowym Brunszwiku. W 1840 dołączył do prowincjonalnej milicji. Gray włączył się do polityki w 1850, kiedy to został wybrany do Zgromadzenia Legislacyjnego. Dołączył do reformatorskiej opozycji, wkrótce stając się jednym z jej liderów. Gray był jednym z najwspanialszych mówców swych czasów. Swoimi płomiennymi przemówieniami zrobił takie wrażenie na gubernatorze Jamesie Bruce, iż ten zaproponował mu miejsce w kontrolowanej przez konserwatystów Radzie Królewskiej. Przystąpienie Graya do rady spowodowało uznanie go za zdrajcę w szeregach opozycji. Siłą rzeczy dołączył do konserwatystów, wraz z którymi już jako ich lider w 1854 zmuszony został do przejścia do opozycji. W 1856, gdy torysi powrócili do władzy, Gray został premierem. Już jednak rok później utracił władzę wraz z utratą większości w Zgromadzeniu. Podjął próby ponownego zbliżenia do liberałów, lecz jego oferta została odrzucona. Gray został jednym z dwóch delegatów Nowego Brunszwiku na konferencję w Charlottetown i w Québecu. Jako że idea Konfederacji była bardzo niepopularna w Nowym Brunszwiku (podobnie jak i w Nowej Szkocji), Gray stracił zaufanie swych wyborców, a w konsekwencji i swój mandat w wyborach 1865 r. W pierwszych wyborach federalnych zdobył mandat do Parlamentu Kanady. Nie wziął udziału w kolejnych wyborach, lecz zaakceptował stanowisko przewodniczącego Sądu Najwyższego Kolumbii Brytyjskiej. Wsławił się wtedy obroną praw mniejszości chińskiej.
  • John Hamilton Gray, QC (* 1814 in Saint George’s, Bermuda; † 5. Juni 1889 in Victoria, British Columbia) war ein kanadischer Politiker und Offizier. Von 1856 bis 1857 war er Premierminister der damaligen Kolonie New Brunswick. Als einer der Väter der Konföderation gehört er zu den Wegbereitern des 1867 gegründeten kanadischen Bundesstaates. Von 1867 bis 1872 war er konservativer Abgeordneter des Unterhauses.
  • John Hamilton Gray, QC (1814 – June 5, 1889) was a politician in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada, a jurist, and one of the Fathers of Confederation. He should not be confused with John Hamilton Gray, a Prince Edward Island politician (and also a Father of Confederation) in the same era. Gray was born in St. George's, Bermuda, British North America. His father, William, was naval commissary in Bermuda and later served as British consul in Norfolk, Virginia. Gray's grandfather, Joseph Gray, was a United Empire Loyalist from Boston who settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia following the American Revolution. His cousin, Samuel Brownlow Gray (1823-1910), the grandfather of Captain Gerald Hamilton Gray (1883-1953) of the Royal Garrison Artillery and Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Wentworth Gray of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians), was appointed Attorney-General of Bermuda in 1861 and the Chief Justice of Bermuda in 1900. John Hamilton Gray was educated at King's College in Nova Scotia after which he became a lawyer in Saint John, New Brunswick. He also served as a captain in the New Brunswick Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry becoming a major in the Queen's New Brunswick Ranger by 1850. In 1854 he became lieutenant-colonel of the regiment. Politically, Gray was a high Tory Conservative but also a moderate reformer. He joined the after it was founded in 1849. Gray moved a motion calling for a "federal union of the British North American colonies, preparatory to their immediate independence." The motion was defeated but was an anticipation of Canadian confederation. Gray was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as a supporter of the Colonial Association's platform of reforms in opposition to the Compact government. Lieutenant Governor Edmund Walker Head appointed Gray to the Executive Council causing the reform opposition to collapse and ending Gray's career as a Liberal. He was created a Queen's Counsel In 1853. Gray became leader of the Conservatives in the Legislative Assembly and found himself leader of the opposition after the 1854 elections, the first held under responsible government, elected a Liberal (or Reform) administration ending "compact" government. In 1855, Lieutenant-Governor John Manners-Sutton dismissed the Reform government over its attempt to institute prohibition and asked Gray to form an administration. As Premier, Gray led the Conservatives to victory in the June 1856 election on an anti-prohibition platform and repealed the liquor law. However, with the central issue uniting his government now resolved he became unable to command a majority in the legislature and resigned in May 1857. Gray continued in opposition as a Conservative MLA. He also led committees of inquiry into railway construction and investigated allegations of patronage and corruption but he concluded that the railway was "sound". After 1860, Gray drifted away from his fellow Conservatives and became supportive of Samuel Leonard Tilley's Liberal government but was defeated in the 1861 election for his efforts. Out of elected politics, Gray returned to his practice as a lawyer and was appointed to an inquiry board on the land question in Prince Edward Island. Gray became an active supporter of Canadian Confederation and joined Tilley's new Liberal-Conservative Party returning to the legislature in a by-election in 1864. Gray served as a delegate to the Charlottetown Conference only to return to New Brunswick to face growing hostility to the confederation project and lost his seat in the 1865 election that brought the Anti-Confederation Party to power. Gray returned to the legislature in 1866 and served as Speaker. When confederation became a reality, Gray won a seat in the House of Commons. He did not run for re-election in 1872. He was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia and moved west reluctantly. He served on the 1885 Royal Commission on Chinese immigration. On the court, Gray ruled in 1878 that the province's Chinese Tax Act was unconstitutional as its purpose was to "drive the Chinese from the country, thus interfering at once with the authority reserved to the Dominion Parliament as to the regulation of the trade and commerce, the rights of aliens, and the treaties of the empire." He was a Freemason of Albion Lodge No. 500 in Saint John, New Brunswick, and Civil Service Lodge No. 148 in Ottawa. John Hamilton Gray died in Victoria, British Columbia and is interred there in the Ross Bay Cemetery. He is the only father of confederation buried west of Ontario.
  • John Hamilton Gray (3 mai 1814 - 5 juin 1889), était un homme politique canadien, et un des Pères de la Confédération.
  • جون هاميلتون غراي (بالإنجليزية: John Hamilton Gray)‏ هو قاضي ومحامي وسياسي كندي، ولد في 3 مايو 1814 في سانت جورج في المملكة المتحدة، وتوفي في 5 يونيو 1889 في فيكتوريا في كندا. حزبياً، نشط في حزب كندا المحافظ. وقد انتخب Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick ‏ (1866 – 1867) وانتخب Premier of New Brunswick ‏.
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  • Джон Гамильтон Грей (англ. John Hamilton Gray, 1814, Сент-Джордж, Бермуды — 5 июня 1889, Виктория, Британская Колумбия, Канада) — канадский политический деятель, юрист, судья. Премьер-министр Нью-Брансуика. Является одним из отцов канадской конфедерации — принимал участие в конференциях в Шарлоттауне и Квебеке.
  • John Hamilton Gray, QC (* 1814 in Saint George’s, Bermuda; † 5. Juni 1889 in Victoria, British Columbia) war ein kanadischer Politiker und Offizier. Von 1856 bis 1857 war er Premierminister der damaligen Kolonie New Brunswick. Als einer der Väter der Konföderation gehört er zu den Wegbereitern des 1867 gegründeten kanadischen Bundesstaates. Von 1867 bis 1872 war er konservativer Abgeordneter des Unterhauses.
  • John Hamilton Gray (3 mai 1814 - 5 juin 1889), était un homme politique canadien, et un des Pères de la Confédération.
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