C Boyden Gray was the son of Gordon Gray. He was an American attorney and government official during the administrations of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower associated with defence and national security.
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Gray was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Bowman Gray Sr and Nathalie Lyons Gray. Gray began his public life as a lawyer.
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He served in the North Carolina General Assembly from 1939 to 1943 and from 1947 to 1949, representing Forsyth County. He entered the US Army in 1942 as a private and rose to captain, serving in Europe with General Omar Bradley’s forces.
From 1962 to 1963, Gray was head of the Federal City Council, a group of business, civic, education and other leaders interested in economic development in Washington, D.C.
Gray was also the publisher of the Winston-Salem Journal, chairman of the board of Piedmont Publishing Company, and chairman of the National Trust of Historic Preservation.
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