lawyer, professor, author, b. Unadilla, N.Y. He moved to Wisconsin with his parents in 1858, settling in Madison where he graduated from the Univ. of Wisconsin (A.B., 1871; LL.B., 1872). He practiced law in Madison (1872-1894) and played an important role in the enactment of Wisconsin's first corrupt practices act. He was associate dean of the Univ. of Wisconsin college of law (1894-1901), and in this capacity helped introduce the case method of law instruction. Leaving Wisconsin in 1901, he served as dean of the law college at the State Univ. of Iowa (1901-1911), and dean of the law college of George Washington Univ., Washington, D.C. (1911-1914). In 1914 he retired from the educational field, but continued to live in Washington, and devoted his time to private law practice and writing. Gregory was widely known as an authority on international law and wrote many articles on that subject. He was the author of a biography, Samuel Freeman Miller (1907), and numerous articles on legal and reform subjects. He was editor of the American Journal of International Law for many years, and at his death bequeathed his large and valuable art collection to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Madison Wis. State Journal, July I1, 1932; M. Curti and V. Carstensen, Univ. of Wis. (2 vols., Madison, 1949); Who's Who in Amer., 16 (1930).

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