Judge Horace Gray  1828-1902, Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court 1864-1873 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of United States 1881-1902 Was succeded by Oliver Wendell Holmes on SCOTUS

Gray was the first justice to hire a law clerk (with his own money) On SCOTUS Gray sided with the majority in Plessy v. Ferguson to uphold racial segregation. In Edmund Jackson v. Wendell Phillips Gray denied Edmund Jackson's and his relatives' claims and converted the trust into an education charity for former slaves with the purpose of bettering their living conditions.  His justification was cy-près.