American lawyer and diplomat Clayland Gray (February 6, 1943 – May 21, 2023) served as White House Counsel from 1989 to 1993 and as the country’s ambassador to the European Union from 2006 to 2007. Boyden Gray & Associates LLP, a law firm with offices in Washington, D.C., was founded by him as a founding partner.
Gray worked as Chief Justice Earl Warren’s law clerk following graduation. He began working with Wilmer Cutler & Pickering (now Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr) in 1968 and was made a partner in 1976. Gray was once a Democrat, but by the end of the 1970s, he had defected to the Republican Party in protest of Jimmy Carter’s administration. He served on the boards of directors for the Atlantic Council, The European Institute, FreedomWorks, and America Abroad Media.
C. Boyden Gray cause of death
At his home in Washington, D.C., C. Boyden Gray, a patrician conservative lawyer who advised President George H.W. Bush in the White House and helped Republican candidates for the judiciary and justice department, passed away over the course of the night on May 20 or 21. He was 80. He had a cardiac issue, according to Nick Summers, his son-in-law.