A. T. Gray returned to Janesville after his term as secretary of state ended.

The evidence

• “Gray, a Janesville man, was inaugurated as secretary of state. He had been chief clerk of the assembly since 1850, and held the office of secretary of state until 1856. Then he came back to Janesville and practiced law here for several years.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 34 / book p. 548

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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