1908 he received 50.5 votes, finishing second behind William Jennings Bryan. Other service Gray was a member of the Joint High Commission which met in Quebec, Canada, in August 1898 to settle differences between the United States and Canada. He was a member of the commission to arrange the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1898) between the United States and Spain in 1898. He was Chairman of the commission to investigate conditions of the coal strike in Pennsylvania in 1902. He was appointed by President McKinley to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, Netherlands in 1900. He was reappointed in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt, in 1912 by President William Howard Taft and in 1920 by President Woodrow Wilson. He was a member of several commissions established to arbitrate various international disputes. He was a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution from 1890 to 1925. He was Vice President and trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Death Gray died on August 7, 1925, in Wilmington, Delaware. He was interred in Presbyterian Cemetery in New Castle. References Sources Delaware's Members of Congress The Political Graveyard External links Delaware Historical Society; website; 505 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801; (302) 655-7161 University of Delaware; Library website; 181 South College Avenue, Newark, Delaware 19717; (302) 831-2965 1840 births 1925 deaths Princeton University alumni People from Wilmington, Delaware Delaware lawyers Delaware Democrats Delaware Attorneys General Democratic Party United States senators from Delaware Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit United States federal judges appointed by William McKinley Candidates in the 1904 United States presidential election Candidates in the 1908 United States presidential election 20th-century American politicians Burials in New Castle County, Delaware Members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration Harvard Law School alumni People from New Castle, Delaware American judges of international courts and tribunals People from New Castle County, Delaware