Noble Jones GREGORY, Congress, KY (1897-1971)

GREGORY, Noble Jones, (brother of William Voris Gregory), a Representative from Kentucky; born in Mayfield, Graves County, Ky., August 30, 1897; attended private and public schools and was graduated from Mayfield (Ky.) High School in 1915 and from Mayfield Business College; served as bookkeeper, cashier, and trust officer of the First National Bank of Mayfield, Ky., 1917-1936; served as secretary-treasurer of the Mayfield Board of Education 1923-1936; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1959); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress; engaged in banking and general investments; died in Mayfield, Ky., September 26, 1971; interment in Maplewood Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present